Turning Off Dialg Boxes (Security)

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Is there anyway to turn off all the Security Dialog Confirmations?
At least turn it off while I make several changes like creating folders and
moving shortcuts (in the All User section of the Start Menu.

I would like to turn it all off. Then when I'm done, I can turn it all back
on.
Thanks in advance
 
Hello,

The best way to do this is to right-click the program you are using, and
click Run As Administrator. This will supress any permissions dialog from
within that program, or any program started from within that program.

For example, when working in Explorer to create folders and move shortcuts,
just right-click Windows Explorer in the start menu and click Run As
Administrator.

This will keep the rest of your system secure, while only supressing the
permission dialogs on the program that you need.

Turning off the permission dialogs for the entire computer requires a
re-start and affects every user on the computer, and can be done from the
User Accounts control panel.

- JB

Vista Support FAQ
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
 
One of my concerns is when I right click on the start menu to open All
Users.
With in here, I want to customize my folders... all the applications were
installed for All Users. Lots of dialog boxes when I do this. I can't
create a folder or rename it or move files into the folder with out at least
3-dialog confirmations.

I'm not sure I understand your answer as applied to this area. I will
review and experiement. Thanks for your quick responsee.
 
For this situation, here's what you can do:

1) Copy the path of All Users to the clipboard
- Right-click the start orb
- Click Open All Users
- Click in a white area of the location/breadcrumb bar
- When the path appears, right-click it
- Click Copy

2) Open an admin explorer
- Click Start
- Type: explorer
- Right-click Windows Explorer when it appears under Programs
- Click Run As Administrator

3) Paste the path into the admin explorer
- Click in a white area of the location/breadcrumb bar
- Right-click
- Click Paste
- Press enter

Everything that you do from within the explorer that you opened "as
administrator" will be done with full administrative permissions, since you
opened it explicitly "as administrator" - you will only get ONE permission
prompt from this window, the very first one. Everything else has implicit
permission - you will not get prompted again while working with this window.

- JB

Vista Support FAQ
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
 
Yes this works... I understand. It is a strange way of doing things.
Just out of curiosity.... why is the "All Users" not in the same locations
as any of the other Users (i.e., user1, Administrator, user.... so forth).
I'm sure the answer has something to do with security but I find it strange
that all the menus could not be at the same location.
Thanks
 
I have no idea of the actual reasoning for the move. My guess is that it was
both a security decision and a UI decision.

For security, having that sort of information outside of a folder that is
commonly shared with other computers reduces Vista's attack surface.

For UI, simplifying the contents of the Users folder to only contain actual
user accounts makes it easier to understand.

- JB

Vista Support FAQ
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
 
Jimmy, have you tried changing the user root environmental variable to
another drive? Does it move the user entirely or does something still stay
on the systemroot?
 
I haven't played around with this, although it sounds like fun.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Windows officially supports
MOVING moving a user's profile folder? I thought it always put a working
copy of the profile inside c:\users. If you have changed the user's profile
to another directory, I thought it used roaming profiles to then synchronize
with the redirected directory, be it another partition or a network drive.

If what I am thinking is correct, I suppose the easiest way of moving a
users profile to another hard disk would be to use symlinks, assuming
Windows doesn't detect that and not let you do it.

- JB

Vista Support FAQ
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
 
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