RO
What I am trying to accomplish is where/how/when Administrator (that's me)
policies were set and equally, how/where to change them.
If you are using Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate, the policies that
control the UAC prompt that you see when a program asks for system wide,
unrestricted access, are set in either the Group Policy Editor or Security
Policy Editor. If you are using the Vista Home Basic or Home Premium, they
are set in the registry.
As you know, there's a multitude of group members experiencing the same
problem over an extended period. All sorts of responses, but not one
answers
the question. Put aside UAC off/on, a workaround sometimes but not always
helpful,and dangerous to boot.
There are only a couple of ways to over-ride administrative policies. One is
to turn UAC off, which you have already noted can be dangerous and the other
is to use the built-in administrator account, which has the administrator
elevation prompt disabled. Using this account can be as dangerous as
disabling UAC, since it has the ability to allow any program to gain
unrestricted access to the entire system with no prompt as to what is
happening.
Another disadvantage to using the built-in administrator account is that
changes made to the system may only be applied to settings when you are
logged on with that account.
You can enable the built-in administrator account by going to Start and
typing cmd.exe In the results, right click cmd.exe and select the Run As
Administrator option.
In the command window, type the following command:
net user administrator /active:yes
Press Enter.
This will make the built-in admin account visible on the login screen.
