run as administrator

[Guest]

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?

 

[Ben]

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

 

[Guest]

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

 

[KDE]

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?"

 

[Don]

Boyd wrote:
.....

Something tells me UAC will be permanently terminated.

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.