User Account Control

[Charles W Davis]

I have a three month old HP with Windows Vista Ultimate. Yesterday while
preparing an entry into our Computer Club's newsletter explaining how to
turn on User Account Control, I found that it was not turned on on my
computer. My computer was 5 day old demo at Sam's Club. In their set up,
they must have turned it off.

Whatever, I turned it on.
I use IE 7, Avant, Netscape, Firefox, Opera, TheWorld, and Safari browsers.
Enough background. My question is this. I can open any one of these browsers
without User Account Control interference except Firefox. Firefox is my
default browser. Why does UAC discriminate in this manner?

 

[Jon]

I have a three month old HP with Windows Vista Ultimate. Yesterday while
preparing an entry into our Computer Club's newsletter explaining how to
turn on User Account Control, I found that it was not turned on on my
computer. My computer was 5 day old demo at Sam's Club. In their set up,
they must have turned it off.

Whatever, I turned it on.
I use IE 7, Avant, Netscape, Firefox, Opera, TheWorld, and Safari
browsers.
Enough background. My question is this. I can open any one of these
browsers without User Account Control interference except Firefox. Firefox
is my default browser. Why does UAC discriminate in this manner?

It shouldn't interfere unless you have the Firefox executable set to run
elevated,.
ie the 'Run as administrator' option checked either in a shortcut's
properties, or in the properties of the executable itself.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Charles

UAC only responds to what a program communicates to it when the program that
is being opened. All of the other programs are telling Vista that they do
not need to have unrestricted access to your entire system, Firefox is not.
Make sure that you have the latest, compatible version of Firefox installed.

Remember that each time a program asks for your permission to use your
administratiove privileges and you click Continue, on the UAC prompt, that
program and any malicious program that may be tagging along, can do a lot of
damage.

 

[Charles W Davis]

Firefox 2.0.0.4 with no add-ins.

Charles

UAC only responds to what a program communicates to it when the program
that is being opened. All of the other programs are telling Vista that
they do not need to have unrestricted access to your entire system,
Firefox is not. Make sure that you have the latest, compatible version of
Firefox installed.

Remember that each time a program asks for your permission to use your
administratiove privileges and you click Continue, on the UAC prompt, that
program and any malicious program that may be tagging along, can do a lot
of damage.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Charles

I don't use Firefox, so I have no idea what the latest version is? You might
want to check on the firefox support site for any known issues.

 

[Terry R.]

On 7/10/2007 6:34 PM On a whim, Ronnie Vernon MVP pounded out on the
keyboard

Charles

I don't use Firefox, so I have no idea what the latest version is? You might
want to check on the firefox support site for any known issues.

Ronnie,

2.0.0.4 is it.

--
Terry R.

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[Charles W Davis]

Ronnie,

I have made the Safari 3 Beta the default browser. I set them all with the
same home page, my own web site http://www.anthemwebs.com All browsers will
open to that home page without the UAC interference, except Firefox which
still has a problem with UAC.

The Firefox folks say that they have had many comments on the same issue.

Thanks for all of the comments.

 

[Charles W Davis]

I right-clicked on the desktop icon for Firefox. Chose Properties. Then
Clicked on the Compatibility tab. Then clicked on the Settings for All Users
button. I unchecked Run this program as an admininstrator. Got the clue
here: http://thevistaforums.com/lofiversion/index.php/t12064.html

Thanks to all of you.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Charles

Excellent, glad you found the fix and thank you very much for posting back.
This will help others in the future.