In message <76A04D5C-DE5E-475A-BA36-25A778A1052D@xxxxxx> Larry S.
<LarryS@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>Thanks for the information. What is frustrating to me is that before my
>reinstall of Vista, I had Palm and DTG 10 working quite well. I am using
>Palm 4.2 with my TX. The problems only began after I did a clean reinstall
>of the system. Since then, whenever I boot up I am informed that Windows
>blocked a program, and I need to click on it to get Activesync Manager
>working. This was not happening before.
Were you using HotSync, or ActiveSync?
Assuming HotSync (AFAIK ActiveSync is only Windows-based OSes, I'm
assuming your Palm is PalmOS, but I'm completely unfamiliar with Windows
based Palm PDAs)
Same question as I already typed below, did you reinstall, or restore
any data, and if so, how did you backup/restore?
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>I solved my Windows mail problem with a workaround. After the system
>reinstall and restore of Mail, Windows mail would only work when UAC was
>turned off. Finally I brought it up, exported accounts, contacts, and
>messages, deleted everything in the Mail folder, and when it re-opened,
>imported everything I had exported. It is now working normally. What I
>can't understand is why these things have been happening.
It almost sounds like either a permissions issue (did you copy or move
the files from a backup? Was that backup on a NTFS hard drive, or
CD/DVD or something else?)
Or that a bunch of EXEs got flagged as "run as administrator", although
that would be tougher to do on your own -- Also, the fix you described
wouldn't work.
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>Also, if I want a
>program to open every time, why is there no way to instruct UAC that that
>particular program is safe and can be trusted?
Short answer, and it's one I venomously disagree with, is one of two...
1) That too many poorly written programs wouldn't bother to fix their
code, and would instead force the "always run as administrator" flag.
Remember, any program that runs this way has 100% privileges over your
entire system, which means a buffer overrun in that app could end up
running unwanted code.
2) That too many users would list cmd.exe or similarly exploitable
programs, which results in the same threat as #1.
Like I said, I disagree entirely with the lack of automated elevation,
but it is what it is. You can work around some, although not all, of
the issues.
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