admin account constantly being asked ok everything

The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to the nth!
Thanks for any help, Rich

Rich - This seems to work ,
RUN / SECPOL.MSC / GO TO / LOCAL POLICIES /SECURITY OPTIONS/ SCROLL DOWN TO LAST EIGHT ITEMS - USER ACCOUNT CONTROL AND DISABLE - That seems to make the miserable window go away.
Tom
"Rich" wrote in message

The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to the nth!
Thanks for any help, Rich

Go into User Account > Change Security Setting and uncheck the UAC.
"Rich" wrote in message

The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to the nth!
Thanks for any help, Rich

Open Help & Support
Search for "User Account Control" (UAC)
you can turn the feature off.


"Rich" wrote:

The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to the nth!
Thanks for any help, Rich

Thanks for the help everyone the only thing you left out Bill was I needed to reboot but that did the trick! Thanks for the help!
Rich
"Bill" wrote in message

Go into User Account > Change Security Setting and uncheck the UAC.
"Rich" wrote in message The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to the nth!
Thanks for any help, Rich

Rich,
It's called something like "Least User Access". The idea is that you as a user (even though you are an admin) run everything as a standard user. Then when anything that requires admin rights needs to run, your prompted. Idea being that you are aware of what needs admin rights and the user in theory can't do anything stupid without being prompted to confirm it.
Paul
"Rich" wrote in message

The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to the nth!
Thanks for any help, Rich

Good therory but why what seems to me to reduntecncy? I'm an admin I have admin rights and that is how I set it if I wanted to restrict things I would run under advanced user and see the can't do that. I just don't follow the logic I guess. Last night after the failed upgrade of XP I started deleting the folder Vista made called Old Windows install (or somthing along those lies) and I first started with shift delete the entire folder 5gb of crap so it prompts me over and over for the same information then says it will take 4 days to delete this folder! So I went to safe mode and deleted it but what a hassle that wasn't needed and now I find out that I just needed to uncheck one little box to clear all these reduntent questions that held everything up? Seems odd, but thanks for the information, Rich
"Paul Edwards" wrote in message

Rich,
It's called something like "Least User Access". The idea is that you as a user (even though you are an admin) run everything as a standard user. Then when anything that requires admin rights needs to run, your prompted. Idea being that you are aware of what needs admin rights and the user in theory can't do anything stupid without being prompted to confirm it.
Paul
"Rich" wrote in message The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to the nth!
Thanks for any help, Rich

"Rich" wrote:

Good therory but why what seems to me to reduntecncy? I'm an admin I have admin rights and that is how I set it if I wanted to restrict things I would run under advanced user and see the can't do that. I just don't follow the logic I guess.

Never underestimate the level of stupidity of the lowest common denominator.

Yes UAC can be pretty annoying. MS is trying to cut down on the number of prompts (there are certain cases where you can be prompted up to 7 times to delete a file!) Ultimately though, I think that UAC is a really good idea because if something installs itself on your pc with UAC running (something malicious I mean), then you have no one to blame but yourself, because you allowed it to install. I have already blocked some pieces of spyware with UAC.
The reason I think that admin users are being locked down a little more now, is because the 'average user' doesn't have enough common sense to properly protect themselves and they run as full admin 24/7 with little or no system security costing MS mucho $$$ in tech support every year for things that people should really have enough common sense to do for themselves.
If you really dislike UAC that much it can be disabled in the ways listed above as well as click Start (well used to be start), type msconfig <enter> click the tools tab and select disable UAC in the menu...click apply, restart and no more UAC.
"Rich" wrote in message

The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to the nth!
Thanks for any help, Rich

Well, its not really about assuming stupid users. *grin*
What its supposed to protect against is a malicious actor doing admin stuff behind your back. For example, say you read a malicious document, and the document reader has a bug that will allow that specially-configured malicious document to execute an arbitrary program.
On XP, if you're running as admin, the bug would be exploited.
On Vista, you'll get a popup saying "the document reader wants to write to an admin section of the registry - want to let it?" (That's probably not the actual text, but if the text you see isn't descriptive enough, file a bug.)
Hopefully, you'll say "huh? why the heck should a document reader want to do that? *cancel*"
Basically, its designed to give you some more explicit awareness of when admin actions are happening.
-Bruce
"Paul Edwards" wrote in message

Rich,
It's called something like "Least User Access". The idea is that you as a user (even though you are an admin) run everything as a standard user. Then when anything that requires admin rights needs to run, your prompted. Idea being that you are aware of what needs admin rights and the user in theory can't do anything stupid without being prompted to confirm it.
Paul
"Rich" wrote in message The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to the nth!
Thanks for any help, Rich

Ideally, LUA will only ask once when a set of admin operations are being done. Please file bugs wherever you see that we're doing something less than ideal.
-Bruce
"Rich" wrote in message

Good therory but why what seems to me to reduntecncy? I'm an admin I have admin rights and that is how I set it if I wanted to restrict things I would run under advanced user and see the can't do that. I just don't follow the logic I guess. Last night after the failed upgrade of XP I started deleting the folder Vista made called Old Windows install (or somthing along those lies) and I first started with shift delete the entire folder 5gb of crap so it prompts me over and over for the same information then says it will take 4 days to delete this folder! So I went to safe mode and deleted it but what a hassle that wasn't needed and now I find out that I just needed to uncheck one little box to clear all these reduntent questions that held everything up? Seems odd, but thanks for the information, Rich
"Paul Edwards" wrote in message Rich,
It's called something like "Least User Access". The idea is that you as a user (even though you are an admin) run everything as a standard user. Then when anything that requires admin rights needs to run, your prompted. Idea being that you are aware of what needs admin rights and the user in theory can't do anything stupid without being prompted to confirm it.
Paul
"Rich" wrote in message The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to the nth!
Thanks for any help, Rich

Thanks for the answer! Those windows are sooooooooo annoying.
Jenny
"Thomas" wrote:

Rich - This seems to work ,
RUN / SECPOL.MSC / GO TO / LOCAL POLICIES /SECURITY OPTIONS/ SCROLL DOWN TO LAST EIGHT ITEMS - USER ACCOUNT CONTROL AND DISABLE - That seems to make the miserable window go away.
Tom
"Rich" wrote in message The screen dims and then after a few seconds I'm asked to give rights to a program that wants to run. I am running as admin why do I then have to second this motion? I don't get it. I know its beta but this is reduntant to the nth!
Thanks for any help, Rich