Re: Use of credentials with UAC in vista

"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:e5Qk5ahAJHA.3728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

An admin on vista is locked down to a Standard user secuirty token,
until such time it needs to use the Admin Full rights Secuirty token,
the the admin's rights are ecalated to Full Admin rights, as being
discussed in the links.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Admin-Approval-Mode-in-Windows-Vista-453
12.shtml http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691.aspx

There is another account on Vista that has Admin Full Rights on Vista,
with UAC enabled.

<http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/vista/vista_administrator_activat
e.htm#Summary_of_Vista_Administrator_-_Super_User_(Hidden_Account)>


This is what is wrong with Vista IMO. They took away the ability to run
the OS how I want. I don't want UAC running and prefer to use a limited
user account without UAC. But the problem with that is that in Vista if
you run under a limited user account you can't run anything with admin
privileges if something needs it like you can on XP. The run as admin
command is there but it just runs the exe without admin privilieges and
never asks for admin user name and password. That means I have to log
back into the admin account whenever I need to run a prog that needs
admin access. I don't have to do that on XP so in this way Vista is worse
than XP. I hope they change this in Windows7 because how I choose to run
the OS should be a users choice and not enforced by Microsoft. I ran
withy UAC for a long time but finally got fed up wityh it so created a
limited user account instead so that when I am connected to the internet
I still have good protection from malware etc. That's how I have always
run XP and is how I would prefert to run Vista too. UAC is for the dweebs
who never ran XP under a limited user account.
.

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