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Vista ult problem.

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crispy2010

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When installing some programs, vista tells me that I need to be logged in as admin. The thing is I am the admin.

This also does this when I try to run intel tat. Why is this?

Thanx!
 
Trying to simplify this for you...

In Vista when admins log in they are given a user token as well as an administrative token. Most applications are run under their user token, this is a very good thing; security best practices highly recommend running only the things that you *must* run with administrative context.

Applications that follow well documented procedures are marked that they need to be run as admins and Vista recognizes this and prompts you to elevate (that is, use your admin token). Older and/or poorly written applications do not always have these markings and they fail.

The solution is to run the applications from the start using your administrative token. You can do this by right-clicking on them and selecting to run them as admin.

It's part of the UAC featureset in Vista:
http://technet.microsoft.com/e...owsvista/aa906021.aspx

Erik
 
Do that, or temporarily disable the User Account Protection while installing your applications. Then turn it on if you want to!
 
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