Hi,

I created an Administrator account on a Vista installation.

But still when I click on programs such as mmc.exe I get misleading error
message that "\windows\system32\mmc.exe path is invalid or task does not
exist" but when I right-click and select "run as administrator" it works ok.

I should not have to specify "run as administrator" since I am logged on as
an administrator.

I presume other things simply don't work for the same reason: authentication
is failing when it should not!

How do I resolve this issue?

You can turn off UAC in the users section of control panel and try it then


"Boyd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:4F673DE4-4BDA-44DF-9044-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
>
> I created an Administrator account on a Vista installation.
>
> But still when I click on programs such as mmc.exe I get misleading error
> message that "\windows\system32\mmc.exe path is invalid or task does not
> exist" but when I right-click and select "run as administrator" it works
> ok.
>
> I should not have to specify "run as administrator" since I am logged on
> as
> an administrator.
>
> I presume other things simply don't work for the same reason:
> authentication
> is failing when it should not!
>
> How do I resolve this issue?

That did it.

Now not only can I run mmc.exe, et al without selecting "run as
administrator" but I can now instal the .net 3.0 demos and samples package!

Something tells me UAC will be permanently terminated.

Boyd

"Ben" wrote:

> You can turn off UAC in the users section of control panel and try it then
>
>
> "Boyd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4F673DE4-4BDA-44DF-9044-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I created an Administrator account on a Vista installation.
> >
> > But still when I click on programs such as mmc.exe I get misleading error
> > message that "\windows\system32\mmc.exe path is invalid or task does not
> > exist" but when I right-click and select "run as administrator" it works
> > ok.
> >
> > I should not have to specify "run as administrator" since I am logged on
> > as
> > an administrator.
> >
> > I presume other things simply don't work for the same reason:
> > authentication
> > is failing when it should not!
> >
> > How do I resolve this issue?
>

yep, took me about 30 seconds to figure that one out too. Once you see it
in action, you understand those US Mac TV ads.
"you are coming to a sad realization...cancel or allow?"

"Boyd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6604C444-736A-476D-8BC5-(E-Mail Removed)...
> That did it.
>
> Now not only can I run mmc.exe, et al without selecting "run as
> administrator" but I can now instal the .net 3.0 demos and samples
> package!
>
> Something tells me UAC will be permanently terminated.
>
> Boyd
>
> "Ben" wrote:
>
>> You can turn off UAC in the users section of control panel and try it
>> then
>>
>>
>> "Boyd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:4F673DE4-4BDA-44DF-9044-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I created an Administrator account on a Vista installation.
>> >
>> > But still when I click on programs such as mmc.exe I get misleading
>> > error
>> > message that "\windows\system32\mmc.exe path is invalid or task does
>> > not
>> > exist" but when I right-click and select "run as administrator" it
>> > works
>> > ok.
>> >
>> > I should not have to specify "run as administrator" since I am logged
>> > on
>> > as
>> > an administrator.
>> >
>> > I presume other things simply don't work for the same reason:
>> > authentication
>> > is failing when it should not!
>> >
>> > How do I resolve this issue?
>>

Boyd wrote:
.....

> Something tells me UAC will be permanently terminated.

>>> I should not have to specify "run as administrator" since I am logged on
>>> as an administrator.

I hope you will reconsider after watching this interview with the
developers of UAC:

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=288259

They've solved some very important problems with UAC. The solution
isn't perfect (yet), but it's a great improvement over the non-solution
offered by previous Windows versions.