UAC Corrupted in SP1?

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After installing SP1, my user account was changed to standard user and many
of the programs (including IE7) would not work properly AFTER I changed my
user account back to Administrator.

The other accounts that were Administrator and a new Administrator account
would still not allow IE7 to work properly unless "run as Administrator".

When I turn UAC off, the problems go away.

How can I fix this??
 
Good question!

All profiles on my PC are Administrator (except our "visitor" profile).

With UAC on:
IE7 has numerous script errors (20-30) on cnn.com
IE7 will not open links or pop-ups
IE7 will not show the Windows Discussion Community entries
McAfee will open with a blank window when opened in the Event Viewer
No UAC popup on several programs (including McAfee)

All of these are resolved if the programs are "run as Administrator". Yes,
IE7 needs to be "Run as Administrator" in order to have these features.

With UAC off:
All of these programs run as they are supposed to.

Of course, I don't want to run my computer with UAC off. SO, I'm wondering
if there is a way to reset the UAC values so that they are working as
designed.

If I create a new User Account with Administrator access, it acts in a
faulty fashion like all of the existing accounts.

Finally....prior to SP1 upgrade, none of these odd behaviors were present.
It was only AFTER upgrade that the program behavior changed.

I had numerous hours of MS SP1 assistance try to fix the OS in the usual
manner, including running IE7 as NO-Addon, Clean Boot, Disabling Addons.

I've also checked my machine with several Spyware/Malware/Virus programs to
make sure that I was not infected.

I cannot uninstall SP1 at this point, and my System Restore point back to
pre-SP1 was lost after the numerous attempts with MS SP1 help.

At this point, my only hope is that the UAC can be reset to default settings
or re-created or that one of the upcoming SP1 updates in April will fix the
problem.

I hope that helps.
 
Hi Bob -

Thank you for your suggestion.

However, I did completely remove McAfee including using the MCPR Tool. The
problem still exists without McAfee on my system....

I should have put that in the entry.

Thanks!

Jay
 
With UAC on:
IE7 has numerous script errors (20-30) on cnn.com
IE7 will not open links or pop-ups
IE7 will not show the Windows Discussion Community entries
McAfee will open with a blank window when opened in the Event Viewer
No UAC popup on several programs (including McAfee)
Click to expand...

Did you uninstall McAfee after or prior to installing SP1 ?
It appears that McAfee was actively monitoring the system when SP1 was
installed and that's the cause of UAC corruption.
my user account was changed to standard user and many
of the programs (including IE7) would not work properly AFTER I changed my
user account back to Administrator.

The other accounts that were Administrator and a new Administrator account
would still not allow IE7 to work properly unless "run as Administrator".
Click to expand...

Information for advanced users about the changes to the built-in
administrator account in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942956

None of the above accounts use the built-in Admin account. By default,
the built-in Admin account is disabled in a new installation of Vista.
The only way you are going to be able to NOT use 'run as admin' is to
enable the built-in Admin account which will lower security on the system:

HOW TO: Enable the build-in Administrator account in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555910

Perhaps someone else can suggest a way to fix UAC without necessitating
the reinstall of Vista.


MowGreen [MVP 2003-2008]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============
 
Added info for the KB555910 Article and I wish MS would change it.

Steps 4 and 5 from that Article...........
4. At the command prompt, type net user administrator /active:yes, and then
press ENTER.
5. Type net user administrator <Password>, and then press ENTER.
Note: Please replace the <Password> tag with your passwords which you want
to set to administrator account.

It's not necessary to place any password if the user so chooses in order to
enable the built-in Administrator account, you can skip step 5.

As for step 4, they do not explain how to disable the Admin account once
enabled and this should be done after whatever task one needs to do and logs
out of the Admin account.

To disable and set back to default.

Log off of the Admin account and back to your user account.
Follow steps 1 to 3 in that Article then for step 4 type the following:
net user administrator /active:no press Enter
Type Exit or simply close the command window.


--
All the best,
SG

Is your computer system ready for Vista?
https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/

MowGreen said:
With UAC on:
IE7 has numerous script errors (20-30) on cnn.com
IE7 will not open links or pop-ups
IE7 will not show the Windows Discussion Community entries
McAfee will open with a blank window when opened in the Event Viewer
No UAC popup on several programs (including McAfee)
Click to expand...

Did you uninstall McAfee after or prior to installing SP1 ?
It appears that McAfee was actively monitoring the system when SP1 was
installed and that's the cause of UAC corruption.
my user account was changed to standard user and many of the programs
(including IE7) would not work properly AFTER I changed my user account
back to Administrator.

The other accounts that were Administrator and a new Administrator
account would still not allow IE7 to work properly unless "run as
Administrator".
Click to expand...

Information for advanced users about the changes to the built-in
administrator account in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942956

None of the above accounts use the built-in Admin account. By default, the
built-in Admin account is disabled in a new installation of Vista. The
only way you are going to be able to NOT use 'run as admin' is to enable
the built-in Admin account which will lower security on the system:

HOW TO: Enable the build-in Administrator account in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555910

Perhaps someone else can suggest a way to fix UAC without necessitating
the reinstall of Vista.


MowGreen [MVP 2003-2008]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============

Hi Bob - Thank you for your suggestion.

However, I did completely remove McAfee including using the MCPR Tool.
The problem still exists without McAfee on my system....

I should have put that in the entry.

Thanks!

Jay

:
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
SG said:
Added info for the KB555910 Article and I wish MS would change it.

Steps 4 and 5 from that Article...........
4. At the command prompt, type net user administrator /active:yes, and
then press ENTER.
5. Type net user administrator <Password>, and then press ENTER.
Note: Please replace the <Password> tag with your passwords which you
want to set to administrator account.

It's not necessary to place any password if the user so chooses in order
to enable the built-in Administrator account, you can skip step 5.

As for step 4, they do not explain how to disable the Admin account once
enabled and this should be done after whatever task one needs to do and
logs out of the Admin account.

To disable and set back to default.

Log off of the Admin account and back to your user account.
Follow steps 1 to 3 in that Article then for step 4 type the following:
net user administrator /active:no press Enter
Type Exit or simply close the command window.
Click to expand...

MS may change it if you submitted this information in the ' Provide
feedback on this article ' field on the bottom of the Community
Solutions article.
You did submit this worthwhile info, right ? <w>


MowGreen [MVP 2003-2008]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============
 
Thanks MowGreen, I just did and hope they do take a close look at it.

--
All the best,
SG

Is your computer system ready for Vista?
https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/

MowGreen said:
SG said:
Added info for the KB555910 Article and I wish MS would change it.

Steps 4 and 5 from that Article...........
4. At the command prompt, type net user administrator /active:yes, and
then press ENTER.
5. Type net user administrator <Password>, and then press ENTER.
Note: Please replace the <Password> tag with your passwords which you
want to set to administrator account.

It's not necessary to place any password if the user so chooses in order
to enable the built-in Administrator account, you can skip step 5.

As for step 4, they do not explain how to disable the Admin account once
enabled and this should be done after whatever task one needs to do and
logs out of the Admin account.

To disable and set back to default.

Log off of the Admin account and back to your user account.
Follow steps 1 to 3 in that Article then for step 4 type the following:
net user administrator /active:no press Enter
Type Exit or simply close the command window.
Click to expand...

MS may change it if you submitted this information in the ' Provide
feedback on this article ' field on the bottom of the Community Solutions
article.
You did submit this worthwhile info, right ? <w>


MowGreen [MVP 2003-2008]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============
Click to expand...
 
Thanks to you to, SG and let's hope they include that info in the
article soon. <w>

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2008]
===============
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
===============
 
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