User Accounts

[John at Greyeye]

I'm logged in as an Administrator (I think) but when I go to Control Panel,
User Accounts, Change your account type - I'm told that I'm a Standard User.

The window also tells me that another user on this computer must be
administrator before I can change the account type - there is another
administrator.

Does anyone know what's going on?

 

[Malke]

I'm logged in as an Administrator (I think) but when I go to Control
Panel, User Accounts, Change your account type - I'm told that I'm a
Standard User.

The window also tells me that another user on this computer must be
administrator before I can change the account type - there is another
administrator.

Does anyone know what's going on?

Since we can't see your system, I would guess that you are misinterpreting
something. But this is moot because you don't want to run in an account
with administrative privileges in Vista anyway. Create a new user account
with administrative privileges. Call it "Tech" or whatever (anything except
"Administrator"). With luck, you'll never log into this account. It's there
for elevation and emergency purposes only.

Now go into the User Accounts applet and look at your own user account, the
one you will use every day. Make sure it is a Standard user. If there is
any question, change the account type to Standard.

Malke

 

[John at Greyeye]

HI Malke

Thanks for a quick response. I think a bit more background might help.

Our MSAccess application uses the 'Sendkeys' function which fails under
Vista. Microsoft helpline said we should turn off UAC and this seemed to cure
the problem.

If I am logged in as administrator and I try to change the UAC status, it is
not accepted. If I tick the box, click OK and then go back in again, the box
is still un-ticked.

However, if I go to Windows Security Center, and look in Other security
settings, the UAC is ON!

Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to create a new account whether I'm
logged in as administrator or not. When I go to 'User Accounts' and 'Manage
another account', there are no accounts listed in the box (even though I have
four setup). If I
click on 'Create a new account', I'm prompted to type in a name, then select
Standard or Administrator and then click on 'Create Account'. The screen
redraws and there are still no accounts in the window.

Any ideas?

Thanks

John

 

[Malke]

HI Malke

Thanks for a quick response. I think a bit more background might help.

Our MSAccess application uses the 'Sendkeys' function which fails under
Vista. Microsoft helpline said we should turn off UAC and this seemed to
cure the problem.

If I am logged in as administrator and I try to change the UAC status, it
is not accepted. If I tick the box, click OK and then go back in again,
the box is still un-ticked.

However, if I go to Windows Security Center, and look in Other security
settings, the UAC is ON!

Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to create a new account whether I'm
logged in as administrator or not. When I go to 'User Accounts' and
'Manage another account', there are no accounts listed in the box (even
though I have four setup). If I
click on 'Create a new account', I'm prompted to type in a name, then
select
Standard or Administrator and then click on 'Create Account'. The screen
redraws and there are still no accounts in the window.

I'm really not sure what you mean by "logged in as administrator" because
the built-in Administrator account in Vista is disabled by default.

I think it would be far smarter for you to change your MSAccess
application's coding to one that is compatible with the operating system
under which you want to run it, but that's your business. Here are two ways
of disabling UAC:

From MVP John Barnett:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/turn_off_user_account_control.htm

From MVP Daniel Petri (has even more ways if John's don't work for you):
http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm

Malke