more UAC issues

[Guest]

Running Vista Ultimate Retail with UAC enabled as per default, I am unable to:

1 connect to the internet; IE will open and attempt to find the site, but
runs at 100% CPU and never opens the site
2 change the User Picture; I am stuck with the silly sunflower. If I go to
User Accounts | Change your picture, no matter what I choose, either one of
the other silly pictures, or any picture from my picture folder, the User
Picture will always default back to that silly sunflower
3 Two start-up programs are blocked (Process Explorer v10.21 and Acronis
True Image v9.1)

However, if I go to Local Security Policy | Local Policies | Security
Options and change “User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin
Approval Mode†to Disabled, the above issues go away. Now that’s fine, but I
understand doing this effectively turns off UAC since all UAC polices depend
on this option being Enabled!

What to do??

All help would be much appreciated.

 

[Guest]

What is installed on your computer other than Windows? Obviously there is
more on this box than just the OS. Whatever that is is what is causing all
your problems.

I can tell you right now that you should not have Process Explorer, or any
other program that tries to run as an admin, run on logon. That causes
several problems.

 

[vanilla]

Thank you much for the clue about trying to run apps that want admin on
logon. I bought two books on Vista already, but didn't see any that had
Security in the title. Will look again ... vanilla ...