George said:
Hi shawn thanks for your help i elevated the account and it is perfect.
Also
done it on my other 3 comps Thanks a lot . George
George,
Just For Your Information I'd suggest reading over this written by Ronnie
Vernon-MS MVP
UAC can be a little annoying, but it's there and for good reasons.
QUOTE:"Bob said:
Ronnie
Even with the prompt enabled it still requires the user to be
knowledgeable of the application UAC is prompting about. Once elevation is
allowed UAC does not protect the user. Clicking allow becomes nothing more
than an annoying additional click which in many cases becomes automatic.
It it only annoying until you run into something unexpected. Right after
Vista was first released, we went through all of the debates about users
getting to the point where clicking on the prompt became an 'automatic'
response.
One user told us about a utility that he downloaded and installed and he got
the expected 'security warning' about the file not having a digital
signature. He clicked to run the file anyway and the utility installed. He
then got a message to 'click here' to configure your personal settings. He
then received this prompt.
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa86/rvmv/UACPrompt2.jpg
Without UAC, he never would have been aware of the second file being
installed, since he had already permitted the program to run. Needless to
say, he decided that he would leave UAC on.
Additionally, the most common way a PC becomes infected is by downloading
something from the net and even with the UAC prompts disabled you still
receive a security warning when you attempt a download.
Only in specific instances, such as an installation file that does not have
a digital signature attached. The security warning does nothing to protect
against 'drive-by' downloads that run automatically. Most of the smaller
software developers will not bother with a digital signature, simply because
it is time consuming and expensive for them.
Personally, when I decide to run something I don't have a need to be asked
to confirm it. If I didn't want to run it I would not have clicked on it
in the first place.
It's not about you deciding to run a program, it's about 'isolation', it's
about 'integrity levels', it's about what background actions the program
will take when you do run it. Have you ever wondered why an application,
that does nothing more than make images look better, needs full and
unrestricted access to every part of your computer?
The bottom line is UAC does no more than protect the user from himself,
and even that still requires the user to be knowledgeable.
This is the whole point of UAC. The only way that a malicious program can be
installed is if the user gets complacent and stops paying attention to what
they are doing.
When Vista is first installed, a user will typically see a ton of UAC
prompts as they install all of their software programs and utilities, but
these will gradually become more rare. Windows has to overcome almost twenty
years of being a 'push button' operating system before it will attain any
semblance of a 'secure' operating system. The education of users as well as
developers will take some time. UAC and other security 'hardening'
procedures are not going to 'go away'.
When the majority of developers see the benefits, and start following the
Microsoft developer guidelines for coding their programs and applications to
run in a 'least user privilege' environment, UAC will become a prompt that
is rarely seen. The vast majority of windows software should not even need
to initiate a UAC prompt.
Take a few minutes to read the following article. It will give you a better
understanding, and show you the underlying reasons and goals of UAC.
The Long-Term Impact of User Account Control:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc137811.aspx
--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
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All the best,
SG
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