Administrator in Vista

Weedo

Though I have designated my user account in Vista to be as an administrator I am sometimes prevented from doing things for which I get a message that says my account is not an administrator account. recent example: I'm trying to immunize my system using Spybot v1.5 but I am getting a message that says 'This action may not be performed completely since you are not an administrator. If you want this performed for all users, please run this application elevated as an administrator.' It's not fully immunizing my system. I only have one user account on my machine, which is me and it is an administrator account. What's up with that?

Jokke

Is it a work or school computer? I've found that my school computer will do this sometimes.

Thrax

It's Vista, the admin is really not an admin. You have to right click the executable and choose "Run as... (Administrator)." Just another, er, "Feature."

Weedo

Thanks. I never noticed that. What a pain.

QCH

Yep... you have limited admin abilities that only require a "Yes I REALLY mean to do that" pop up. Then there are some things that you need to elevate your powers. Like Thrax stated, Right click and select "Run As Administrator" and it will ask you for user name and password.

Jokke

Is there a workaround? A fix? A hack? ANYTHING? I'm so tired of going through the whole proceed thing every time I wanna run Spybot or something...

Thrax

No. It is what it is. It's a central element of Vista's security.

Jokke

Bah! Useless POS. Why make a OS so secure the user nearly can't use it's full potential?

QCH

You only have to use that "Run As" a few times. I've used it, like, 5 times in order to get my system up and running. The normal request for elevated privileges is more common but acceptable and there is a hack for that.

Thrax

<s>Install XP</s> Disable UAC.

happydude

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