Charles Fischer

Sharon,

I had already tried that, with no success. After you click the shield, you
can VIEW all the privileges, but you cannot actually EDIT them since the
checkboxes are all greyed out, so it's not really "my boat" after all. Big
Brother Knows Best!

Charles

"Sharon F" wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:41:01 -0800, Charles Fischer wrote:
>
> > Vista initially offers only two groups - Administrator and User. After
> > running MMC and adding the relevant snap-ins, you get the choice of 14
> > groups, none of which is labelled "trusted" "installer" or "trusted
> > installer" - so now what?
> >
> > Charles
> >
>
> Right click My Computer> Manage will bring up an MMC console with Users and
> Groups. Sorry you ended up taking the long way around.
>
> Am also going to apologize for a bum steer. "Trusted Installer" was a group
> in during the public preview stages of Vista development. It is no longer
> included.
>
> Have you tried going to Properties of the font file. On the Security tab
> you'll see various user groups (including Trusted Installers) listed. If
> you click on TrustedInstaller, you'll see that "Full Control" is marked. If
> you click on "Administrators," you'll see that only Read and Read and
> Execute are active. Click the shielded button. The shield indicates
> Administrator privileges are required and clicking the button will bring up
> a UAC prompt. OK that button. Edit the permissions for Administrators to
> include Full Control. Then delete the unwanted font files.
>
> Personally and barring the optional removal of components through Turn
> Windows Features On/Off, I recommend leaving all operating system files
> including fonts untouched but it's your boat...
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
>