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yes that is what i did for myself but Joe Bloe doesn't want to/doesnt know
how to open secpol and play around in there. Ed was satisfied with just
turning it off, which is what this thread is about.
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R.
"Alun Jones" <alun@texis.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Ryan" <RyanUnderscoreGermainAtHotmail> wrote in message
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>> it was an example...replace with anything else that requires
>> administrative privileges. I dont want to be asked to continue at every
>> other action I make if I'm an administrator.
>
> Then simply configure UAC to not prompt for elevation for administrators.
>
> That way, when you're in your administrator account doing administrator
> things, you'll be an administrator whenever you need to be, but by leaving
> UAC in place and enabled, your restricted account, which you use for all
> of your email and surfing, will still be protected. You'll even keep some
> measure of protection in your administrator account, as those applications
> which are marked to not elevate will run as restrocted user.
>
>> However i do think it was a great idea to have the ability to prompt for
>> admin credentials for users...no more right-click run as for me!
>
> Oh, you'll still have to do that for programs that aren't updated for
> Vista.
>
> Alun.
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>

Ryan wrote:
> yes that is what i did for myself but Joe Bloe doesn't want to/doesnt know
> how to open secpol and play around in there. Ed was satisfied with just
> turning it off, which is what this thread is about.

If he doesn't know how to open secpol, I'd rather he didn't turn off
UAC. I get enough spam already.

Alun Harford