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Re: Vista User Account Control
"Jay" <nospam@**here.com> wrote in message
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> Crazy. Why would a piece of software want/need to run as admin?
> Some sort of catch all situation to ensure no problems at run time?
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> Jay
Jay
If a program is Vista compatible, you should never see an administrator
prompt, except when the program is first installed. From then on, running
the program should be seamless with no prompts for privilege elevation.
As others have said, programs that ask for admin privileges, each time they
run, were written for earlier versions of Windows, such as XP. With XP,
despite recommendations to the contrary, nearly everyone used a full
administrator account. This enabled the software developers to get lazy and
simply code their programs to run with full, system wide access. This led to
the overwhelming security problems in these earlier versions of Windows. The
bad people could easily write malicious programs and simply run them with
the within the users admin account, completely in the background and
invisible to the user.
Vista enforces a new security model, which should have been done a long time
ago. Developers have had over 5 years to get ready for Vista, but despite
this, many have still not updated their programs. I do a lot of beta testing
for many different developers and once they understand what has to be done
to get their programs Vista compatible, I have seen them make the necessary
changes in less than one day.
--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User
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