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is there any way of setting the pc to not ask me for administator privilege
every time it does the time sync? reason i ask is because i have another
program other than the system clock, it is a talking clock and it acts and
looks like the system clock but requires admin privilege every time i boot
my pc, is there any way of letting any user do the time sync?

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Rick Rogers

Hi,

Not until the program is rewritten to run properly under Vista. Likely it is
trying to write to the program files folder in which it is installed rather
than the virtual directory created for it in the user's runtime environment.
To do so it needs elevated privileges, something that is not enabled by
default in Vista. If you disable UAC, it may resolve the issue, but then you
will be disabling some of the security design built into Vista.

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Translator French - English - Creole

well what i meant is it's the system asking me for the admin privilege not
the program. eveytime i go to modify the time whether it's manual setting or
automatic time sync it askes me to make sure that i give it the privilege,
so what i was wandering is, is it possible to tell vista that the time
settings can be changed by any user, just like when you give the rights for
a user to do certain stuff.

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AJR

A matter of semantics here - Administrative priveleges are not required to
set the time. A "standard user" can set the time - the dialogue presented
is not asking for "credentials" but to acknowledge the action.

An Admistrator is also presented with the "do you want to continue"
request - however if a standard user attempts to perform a task requiring
Administrator status, they ae presented with a second request, after
acknowledgeing "continue", asking for an Administrator ID and password.
 
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Translator French - English - Creole

so would turning off auc or uac or whatever would it stop this message cuz
it's really annoying.

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Translator French - English - Creole

alright no need to reply i got my answer yes it does i was so sick of that
message that i tryed it

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AJR

Would not recommend disabling UAC - it performs other importan functions.
For example, UAC works in concert with IE7 to provide "protected mode" - as
indicated in lower right hand corner of !E 7 as "protected mode on".

This mode requires files to be downloaded to a temporary location and if you
attempt a download and select the "run" option, the mode creates "virtual"
system folders (including virtualized registry) in which it allows the
application to run.

If the mode determines there is no adverse action on the part of the
download the application is then permited to access "real" system locations.

The above is a small fraction of UAC and "Protectted mode", which by the way
is only available with IR7 and Vista.
 
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Translator French - English - Creole

well, is there any other way of stoping that click to continue message? i
would prefer not to disable the uac but you have no idea how much less
annoying vista has gotten since i did this, i like it when running a program
but for the time settings it was just annoying.

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Rick Rogers

Hi,
A matter of semantics here - Administrative priveleges are not required to
set the time. A "standard user" can set the time - the dialogue presented
is not asking for "credentials" but to acknowledge the action.
Click to expand...

Yes, but this is a third pary time utility, not something inherent to Vista.
The program is asking for elevated privileges precisely because of the
behavior I described - trying to write to the program folder or to a system
folder. The security model, specifically UAC, prohibits this by design so as
to prevent malware from doing this without the user's knowledge.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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Translator French - English - Creole

ok so you are saying there is no way of telling windows not to ask do you
want to continue sign, when i do this? i'm just making sure, cuz somethimes
there a way to use a trick or cheat with windows to make him do something
you want him to do, by doing something else. i know i'm not being easy to
understand but i just had to ask. like i don't know settin the time program
to run under system privilege or something similar.

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Translator French - English - Creole

danmm, i was really hoping there would be well, i stuck between safer(uac
on) and not safe(uac off) i think virus makers should use there knowlege for
good, for example they could create a virus to do a user task that the
system won't allow. like tweaking the system, but instead of the current way
it would be controlled by the user.

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dennis@home

Translator French - English - Creole said:
well, is there any other way of stoping that click to continue message? i
would prefer not to disable the uac but you have no idea how much less
annoying vista has gotten since i did this, i like it when running a
program but for the time settings it was just annoying.
Click to expand...

Can you tell you replacement clock to not synchronize and just use the
system clock?
Windows can synchronize without external clock programs so it would have the
same time set if its enabled.
That way you can keep you talking clock and not have a pop up.
 

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