Administrator Account

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The problem is that some older older programs, that were designed
with a traditional admin account in mind, will either not
function properly or throw error messages if it cannot access
restricted areas of the OS.

This can usually be overcome by starting and running the program
as administrator, if you decide that it is safe to do so.
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The puzzling thing is why 'Run as administrator' is necessary for
the standard user/administrator account set up on installing Vista.
This account surely should be able to elevate its privileges for
operations that require it through the UAC 'Do you want to continue'
dialogs. Why would you need to start the operation using 'Run as
administrator', or indeed do you need to at all?
 
Chris

You may need this option for older programs that were made prior to Vista.
Most of these programs were developed assuming that everyone uses an
administrator account, despite warnings that they should not be programmed
this way.
 
You may need this option for older programs that were made prior
to Vista. Most of these programs were developed assuming that
everyone uses an administrator account, despite warnings that
they should not be programmed this way.
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Yes, my question was really to try to understand why the OS wouldn't
offer to elevate the privileges of the user when such programs try
to access or write data outside the user's usual area, as it does
for many operations on files.
 
hi im the only user of a used computer but i dont no the administrator log on
information so now i cant restart on computer to b the administrator to
download or switch users can u tell me how to reset the computer so i can b
administrator please help asap , thankz
 
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