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| | Run as Administrator in context menu Hi, I've got Vista Ultimate running and was wondering if it was possible to remove or disable the Run as Administrator entry in the context menu. I ask because this can be used as a workaround for the software restriction policies I have set for the otherr users of the system I have turned off UAC as it is a major annoyance, and can't downgrade their accounts to Standard as then their games will not run |
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| | Maybe I missed something but if everyone else is in the Administrators group, then that means that even if they don't have access to another's account, they can easily go to manage and change the password on whoever's account they want. And gain access. Ad so forth and so on. Or did I miss something? Prevention is great only if they don't have the power to circumvent it. |
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| | Re: Run as Administrator in context menu Naa Im on Ultimate, I group policy their asses, but havent found anything for that one niggle "CoyoteWAN" wrote: > > Maybe I missed something but if everyone else is in the Administrators > group, then that means that even if they don't have access to another's > account, they can easily go to manage and change the password on > whoever's account they want. And gain access. Ad so forth and so on. > Or did I miss something? Prevention is great only if they don't have > the power to circumvent it. > > > -- > CoyoteWAN > |
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| | RE: Run as Administrator in context menu Hi I notic a big bug in admistrator name changeing. When I upgraded my pc from xp I notic there was no place to change adminstrator name while it was installing. and I wanted to change the Hp default name that came with my hp. Since it was preloaded. and set to a admistrator name all ready. HP_Admistrator. So after it finished vista upgrade. I went to user accounts and renamed the admistrator From Hp_admistrator. Because I know lot people do not change there preloaded machines. and I found out through experiments. that you can access millions of machine hp and dell machines that are left with the default admintrator Ids. Hp_Admistrator or Dell_Adminstrator. So I change the name to make it unquic and password it. Like said Hp and dell do not password these two nicks and left open on default preloaded machines. So guess what anybody can access another machine in admistrator mode. Talk about no security BIg Major bug. Not your fault rather Hp,Dell and any other computer company who preloads computers. Now the other bug is when I did change the name. It did change my Admistrator ID in some area of vista but not all areas ,registry was on big headache and few other area where it Identifies who is admistrotor and who it not. There need to be a fix for vista that when you change or installing a upgrade that you can have the option to put in admistrator ID. Or later to change the Admistrator ID and goes through the whole computer system and fixes ID assosiation. This why so many people are having problems when changing the name of a administrator or user ID. that not making the ID changes in sub programs. Cause like pop ups you need admistrators rights to countinue. It because the ID is not maching the old ID in some sub programs or registries. Next thing Games or my gosh. You have to many security issue here. mainly letting the game itself run. Becuase the older stuff want to access a program and when it drops down to dos or wants to access a area. Guess what computer locks up because it wants you to confirm access. and the game or program wont switch so you can say yes or no. Here where you should put in a option is this a pre vista program. and this would set the accessing to open. and allow the program to access area that it can't access under the new vista or do like in older version of windows and reboot or open up a pop screen to older version of windows. Bad thing I was going to reboot to older version of windows at start up because I seen when I rebooted restore original windows. Bummer yep that what it does restore. It should had the option reboot to original windows xp. Bummer no one thought of this. Becuase right now there are thousands of older programs and games. That I know that will never get upgraded to windows because of out buisness or to costly to even come up with a patch or driver. Sorry I did not live in Tacoma or I been over to show you all some of the biggest flaw that a normal user will run into. I remember the old days when I drove from Ft. Lewis over to Brementon and say hey wait a minute this need to be fix in your next operating Os release. and a few of my friends at microsoft would bring up the fix in a meeting. That was good old days. Now that company gotten big it like no one really listen to end user. There are some other stuff I would like to talk about. But this is the biggest security flaw I found. Not your fault it the companies and users who did not change the default admistrator name while upgrading. Talk about a big back door on milliions of machines. I know your company was trying to make a more secure windows. In doing so some one over look the set backs. So far I been able to get most my older games and programs to run . But at cost of hours of debuging and turning off security measure in registery and system INI. Which would been much simpler having a pop up saying would you like to run this in xp mode. Because clicking on the capatability program for the main program does not work when there are dozen of sub programs and routines in the main program trying to access That need admistrator rights in order to run. And for me to write a emilator or start program for each older game or program will take me months or years to do. where you all can come up with a patch faster then I. Well best of luck and hope some one can under stand what I'm saying. and put out a fix or warning. Laterz C.O.G. Michael "JD" wrote: > Hi, I've got Vista Ultimate running and was wondering if it was possible to > remove or disable the Run as Administrator entry in the context menu. > I ask because this can be used as a workaround for the software restriction > policies I have set for the otherr users of the system > I have turned off UAC as it is a major annoyance, and can't downgrade their > accounts to Standard as then their games will not run |
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