Vista and UAC

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Michael Henderson

I have some applications that will not run unless I do one of two things:

Disable UAC or
Change shortcut to run as administrator

Anyone have any comments in regard to this?

Thanks,
Michael
 
The application vendor should be notified so that they can manifest the
applicatoin properly.
 
Michael Henderson said:
I have some applications that will not run unless I do one of two things:

Disable UAC or
Change shortcut to run as administrator

Anyone have any comments in regard to this?
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Michael,

Did you try to configure compatibility level for those apps?

Right-click app executable > Properies > Compatibility
 
Hello,

This is the expected behavior of applications that are not compatible with
Windows Vista. You can also get them to run correctly with UAC turned on by
right-clicking them and clicking Run As Administrator.

However, the best solution, as you have found, is to edit their shortcut or
compatability tab of their EXE to always run as administrator.
 
I used fdisk to get VISTA off my hard drive and re-installed XP. I hate to be
treated like a kid who doesn't understand what's going on. I'll keep the
Vista disk to remind myself not to install something, solely becuse it's the
latest and greatest!
 
You could have just turned UAC off..


Buck said:
I used fdisk to get VISTA off my hard drive and re-installed XP. I hate to
be
treated like a kid who doesn't understand what's going on. I'll keep the
Vista disk to remind myself not to install something, solely becuse it's
the
latest and greatest!
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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
but switching off the UAC will show the warning in the taskbar that it need
to be fix again.
 
How did you run fdisk?
New computer at work needs Vista removed and XP installed. It will NOT boot
to bootable CDs. Not to XP or Win2K or Bart. Get the STOP blue screen each
time.
 
Open up "Security center", and to the left you'll see
"Change the way Security Center alerts me".


-Michael
 
The administrator option in the compatabity tab is greyed out, anyone know
how to check this box - it cause 505 of my applications not to run
 
The administrator option in the compatabity tab is greyed out, anyone know
how to check this box - it cause 505 of my applications not to run
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Welcome to the club. Try this:

Right click, properties. Once you get to the Security tab, click on
the Advanced tab. A new window should open with a line for each
"owner" showing their current permissions. One or more probably have
read/execute only. If so, click (if you can) on that line. Then Edit,
then Edit a second time on the next windows that open. That may
(sometimes won't) allow you to change permissions to allow the user to
be "elevated" ie giving it full permission.
 
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