"Run as administrator"

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Had an app that wouldn't open, trial version 4.0 of Forte's Agent news
reader actually (3.3 only opened to a non-responsive window). Anyway,
RC1 5600 revealed I didn't have security to write to one of its
directories or some such. I right clicked its icon and selected "Run
as administrator", away she goes, just fine.

How do I adjust such behavior...?
 
Why would you want to.

That is part of the Vista security, designed (in part) so web based nasties
can not be installed behind your back, just by visiting a web page (drive
by download). When it tries to install you will get the warning. Or, you
download and install one free cool app. During the install 3 others you
didn't know about are also trying to install. Hopefully, this will stop
them.

Of course, if you allow it to happen the fault is yours.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Windows Vista requesting an Administrator (root) password to install a third
party program is a security measure found previously by default only on
Linux/Unix systems. This stops users who should only have limited system
access such as employees, children, etc from installing programs or obtaining
access to sensitive data with out the Administrator permission. It also adds
one more level of data security for the consumer who previously on Windows
would run everything as Administrator making it much easier for their system
to be cracked or infected with a Trojan, etc. As for the third party news
reader if it's requesting Administrator (full access rights) to run after
being installed, then you should question this as it shouldn't be necessary,
especially for a news reader.
 
Why would you want to.

That is part of the Vista security, designed (in part) so web based nasties
can not be installed behind your back, just by visiting a web page (drive
by download). When it tries to install you will get the warning. Or, you
download and install one free cool app. During the install 3 others you
didn't know about are also trying to install. Hopefully, this will stop
them.

Of course, if you allow it to happen the fault is yours.
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But my user is already defined as administrator. Why bother with that
if you're going to require my giving my OK anyway clicking dialog box
after dialog box when starting a program I use constantly? Isn't it
just a bit of over-kill? Just a "joe six-pack" query.
 
Overkill is having to run 3-4 anti malware scanners daily to be certain that
one has not contacted any social disease. If UAC keeps the crap off, I am
all for it.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
All well & good, but, how many malware apps are running in the background
under your admin privileges without your knowledge? This way, you'll be
alerted to (and have to approve) anything that tries to modify systems
settings -- including those that you didn't intentionally initiate.
 
I ran into this problem as well. An interesting variation on this is with a
flash bios upgrade file I downloaded from Dell. When I try to run it I get
the following error:

"Flash access denied.
Please make sure you are logged in as an Administrator then try re-starting
the application."

I am the only account on the system and already have administrative rights.
Not sure what to do.

Thank you.
-jl
 
Jacob Levanon said:
I ran into this problem as well. An interesting variation on this is with a
flash bios upgrade file I downloaded from Dell. When I try to run it I get
the following error:

"Flash access denied.
Please make sure you are logged in as an Administrator then try
re-starting the application."

I am the only account on the system and already have administrative
rights. Not sure what to do.

Thank you.
-jl
Click to expand...
You may have administrative rights, but what that means in Vista is that you
have permission to elevate programs as needed on an individual basis.

Try installing the program by right-clicking on it and selecting "Run As
Administrator" and see if that works any better for you.
 
What do you do when the installation of an applicaton or driver requires you
to be an administrator but does not allow the "run as administrator" switch.
This is the problem I'm facing with my all-in-one printer driver and software
from HP. It's brand new by the way.

Tim
 
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