You are right, it would be much more convienent if one could "always
trust" a program.
Unfortunately, there are "hidden consequences" to allowing that.
Basically, if the computer let you "trust" programs so that they never
prompted, the game is up - the bad guys just won - because they could
use those trusted programs to take over your computer.
The purpose of these prompts is not to "save you from yourself" ...
rather, their purpose is to make sure that YOU are the one that is
trying to perform these administrative actions, as opposed to some
malicious program that is trying to do these things behind your back.
Unfortunately, the only way the computer can really know for sure that
you are the one doing these things is by asking you thru the prompt,
but I sincerely hope that a less obtrusive means of doing this will be
found in the future.
- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell
On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:19:00 -0700, Fire balls
<Fireballs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Thanks that of corse solved the problem thanks and sorry for the dumb
>question I should have though of that. but I am also wondering if there was
>anyway that it would recognize that automatically in the future... that can
>be really annoying I understand the need for things to be secure but there
>should be a way for you to have rights that can be accessed when you log on
>that don't have to ask for everything and where you can add trusted
>programs... just a thought I'm sure there are unforseen things that I don't
>know about that would be a problem with that but if not I'm sure many people
>would appreciate a feature like that and hopefully there would be a way to do
>that like ask for adminrights when adding such a program to a trusted list or
>a list of programs or .exe that are always run as adminrights on that
>account. Just a thought maybe a patch or service pack could add that. Agin
>thanks for all the help.
>
>William Moore
>
>"Jimmy Brush" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> You need to transition task manager into "admin mode" in order for
>> this to work.
>>
>> An application can only use your admin powers if it prompts for your
>> permission, even when you are logged in with an administrator.
>>
>> There are a few ways to do this:
>>
>> 1- When opening task manager, right-click it and click Run As
>> Administrator
>>
>> 2- From an open task manager, click the Processes tab, and then click
>> Show processes from all users
>>
>> Once you have gone through the "Windows needs your permission to
>> continue" prompt, task manager is running in admin mode, and you will
>> no longer receive the errors.
>>
>> On Mon, 14 May 2007 13:14:00 -0700, Fire balls
>> <Fireballs@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I'm runnig windows vista business 32bit. I am loged on as an administrator.
>> >when I go to task manager and go to the users tab and click on a user that is
>> >loged on and try and send a message that user it errs out and says I don't
>> >have the right to do it. (the acount I am alos messaging is an administrator
>> >and I have also tried to do it to a standard user as well with the same
>> >resultes) how can this be fixed?
>>
>>
>>
>> - JB
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User
>> Windows Vista Support Faq http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
>>