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I hate starting up a program to find that because I didn't run it in administrator mode (it didn't ask) some of the features don't work, as well as having to give permission to run in this same mode everytime I open a program which does ask - it's starting to annoy me. Also some programs which don't ask upon clicking their shortcut actually crash unless I manually set to run as administrator. I am the computer's administrator and only user.

So my question is, does anyone know of a way to set Vista to automatically run ALL programs automatically (without asking) in administrator mode? Maybe something in the control panel etc, that I can adjust.

Thanks.

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[ This Message was edited by: Xugaa on 2008-05-16 12:45 ]
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Posted: 2008-05-11 14:36:17
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if vista has it, try using the separate administrator account (like xp has)

[ This Message was edited by: gaming_guy on 2008-05-11 13:42 ]
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Posted: 2008-05-11 14:40:57
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one option: http://www.howtogeek.com/howt[....]strator-mode-on-windows-vista/



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Posted: 2008-05-11 15:34:55
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Disable UAC?
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Posted: 2008-05-12 14:28:09
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who can help me too?
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Posted: 2008-05-13 03:18:15
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If you have a program that requires to run on admin level but it doesn't ask for the rights, you can right click the icon, go to properties, navigate to Compatibility tab and mark the checkbox on the bottom where it says: "Run this program as administrator" and save the settings. If you have more users on the system then you can click "Show settings for all users" on the same page which will elevate the rights in order to reach the same page but with admin rights from where you can mark the checkbox Run as adminstrator.

If you are lazy because you need to make one more click than disable UAC.
Mind you how easy is to infect XP..
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Posted: 2008-05-13 11:49:06
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Well I run XP (and maintain it at the various businesses I work for), and I don't have a problem with infections. There are a couple of things called AntVirus and firewalls. Helps a lot.

So on that basis, I have no fear of turnig off UAC in vista. I've run every version of Windows since WFW3.11 (and earlier non-networked versions of Windows and DOS), and never had a problem with viruses.

I allow all my business customers to run their Windows XP in aministrator mode, and tbh I haven't had any problems as a consequence of this.

UAC is pretty cool in some ways, but Windows simply isn't designed from the ground up to operate with such controls. In a few years UAC will mature and improve but for now it's too obtrusive for too little gain. But use both in AND outbound firewall blocking, and AV protection otherwise you might as well invite problems.
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Posted: 2008-05-13 15:10:39
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Mate, sorry if I sounded offensive. But you got my point. As for the UAC, well, I do not know if you are Linux user (probably yes) but there is also a similar thing. Only diff is you do not need to write your password in Vista. Many Linux users were praising this virtue and now when similar thing is intoduced in Vista I find it as a pleasant surprise.

I must tell you, it does puts me at rest a bit. In China, there was some virus in the system trying to install on on the computer. Firewall and AV were working properly for few weeks but one morning when I woke up I've seen a download dialog, giving me std options. Now, if I have downloaded it without thinking you can only guess what would be on the XP. But here UAC would remind me one more time.

BTW I guess you also do web content filtering... Which helps loads.. But for many regural users this one click on Vista could save the system.


Or I understood complete thing wrong...




Than again, you could do a similar thing on XP. Which many do not do, as they want to be an Admin of the system. Which makes it vulnerable...

[ This Message was edited by: kenoby on 2008-05-13 21:12 ]
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Posted: 2008-05-13 21:57:30
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I'm not arguing that UAC doesn't have potential, but the point I'm making is I've run XP for years without being innundated with viruses. Yes there will be the occasional virus that will get through IE vulnurabilities that a firewall won't pickup (only because IE is trusted or more correctly port 80 is trusted for inbound connections. It has to allow port 80 to be able to browse the web), and that the AV program won't notice until it's too late. I've had two such viruses since running Win2k and WinXP (over 7 years).

The average end user who may benefit from UAC, is more than likely to just click allow anyway. Especially after they instal a legitimate program or two, they learn to automatically click "allow" whenever UAC pops up. I've seen this again and again. If UAC didn't appear so often, there is a much better chance end user's would take it seriously when it does appear.


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Posted: 2008-05-15 09:34:55
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Well, I stand to my point.

Once I was invited to repair one computer that was on the internet for a few hours. It was running XP and it was infected to the point where I couldn't reach the registry and it was restarting every 10 secs. So, that one click in Vista IMO saves the day to someone, also providing some reissurance for the zero day attacks.


Thanks for the arguments mate.

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[ This Message was edited by: kenoby on 2008-05-15 10:45 ]
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Posted: 2008-05-15 11:44:57
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