Admin account constantly being asked OK for everything

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The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a
program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to
second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to
the nth!

Thanks for any help, Rich
 
Rich - This seems to work ,

RUN / SECPOL.MSC / GO TO / LOCAL POLICIES /SECURITY OPTIONS/ SCROLL DOWN
TO LAST EIGHT ITEMS - USER ACCOUNT CONTROL AND DISABLE -
That seems to make the miserable window go away.

Tom
 
Thanks for the help everyone the only thing you left out Bill was I needed
to reboot but that did the trick! Thanks for the help!

Rich
 
Rich,

It's called something like "Least User Access". The idea is that you as a
user (even though you are an admin) run everything as a standard user. Then
when anything that requires admin rights needs to run, your prompted. Idea
being that you are aware of what needs admin rights and the user in theory
can't do anything stupid without being prompted to confirm it.

Paul
 
Good therory but why what seems to me to reduntecncy? I'm an admin I have
admin rights and that is how I set it if I wanted to restrict things I would
run under advanced user and see the can't do that. I just don't follow the
logic I guess. Last night after the failed upgrade of XP I started deleting
the folder Vista made called Old Windows install (or somthing along those
lies) and I first started with shift delete the entire folder 5gb of crap so
it prompts me over and over for the same information then says it will take
4 days to delete this folder! So I went to safe mode and deleted it but what
a hassle that wasn't needed and now I find out that I just needed to uncheck
one little box to clear all these reduntent questions that held everything
up?
Seems odd, but thanks for the information, Rich
 
Rich said:
Good therory but why what seems to me to reduntecncy? I'm an admin I have
admin rights and that is how I set it if I wanted to restrict things I would
run under advanced user and see the can't do that. I just don't follow the
logic I guess.
Click to expand...

Never underestimate the level of stupidity of the lowest common denominator.
 
Yes UAC can be pretty annoying. MS is trying to cut down on the number of
prompts (there are certain cases where you can be prompted up to 7 times to
delete a file!) Ultimately though, I think that UAC is a really good idea
because if something installs itself on your pc with UAC running (something
malicious I mean), then you have no one to blame but yourself, because you
allowed it to install. I have already blocked some pieces of spyware with
UAC.

The reason I think that admin users are being locked down a little more now,
is because the 'average user' doesn't have enough common sense to properly
protect themselves and they run as full admin 24/7 with little or no system
security costing MS mucho $$$ in tech support every year for things that
people should really have enough common sense to do for themselves.

If you really dislike UAC that much it can be disabled in the ways listed
above as well as click Start (well used to be start), type msconfig <enter>
click the tools tab and select disable UAC in the menu...click apply,
restart and no more UAC.
 
Well, its not really about assuming stupid users. *grin*

What its supposed to protect against is a malicious actor doing admin stuff
behind your back. For example, say you read a malicious document, and the
document reader has a bug that will allow that specially-configured
malicious document to execute an arbitrary program.

On XP, if you're running as admin, the bug would be exploited.

On Vista, you'll get a popup saying "the document reader wants to write to
an admin section of the registry - want to let it?" (That's probably not
the actual text, but if the text you see isn't descriptive enough, file a
bug.)

Hopefully, you'll say "huh? why the heck should a document reader want to
do that? *cancel*"

Basically, its designed to give you some more explicit awareness of when
admin actions are happening.

-Bruce
 
Ideally, LUA will only ask once when a set of admin operations are being
done. Please file bugs wherever you see that we're doing something less
than ideal.

-Bruce
 
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