Tatakau

When trying to edit the start menu for All Users, I run into that damned UAC "we need to make sure you're an admin" every time I try to cut, copy, or paste a shortcut. It's really friggin' annoying - is there any way to lock myself into perma-admin mode when editing the start menu so I don't have to deal with this for every file operation? Or maybe there's a 3'rd party app out there that I can run as an admin to edit the start menu?

~ tatakau

The Hundred Gunner

The option for this is actually in user accounts, not windows security central like common sense would tell you.

You go to user accounts and turn off user account control for the user.

vista's control panel = fail. They tried too hard to make it too easy.

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Blah, blah, can't hear you

silverwing

Go to "control panel" then "users" then disable "UAC"

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Tatakau

I don't want to remove UAC though - it's there for security reasons, and I don't mind it all that much. Is there a way to do this without disabling UAC?

~ tatakau

The Hundred Gunner

Come on, UAC isn't there for security. You're smarter than it is! It's just training you to click every time something stupid pops up...

I don't know if there's a way around it without disabling UAC.

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"But you would be amazed by how many people think that the only reason to have a computer is to play games, and that playing games is all that anyone with a computer does." - dangerousHobo

"Linux is everywhere, it is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. " - mbp

"I have used a mac before. And they still don't have right click I mean come on." - aakar

Blah, blah, can't hear you

Tatakau

lol, well, I'm usually very careful with my computer anyway, and even running xp I never got any spyware or viruses inadvertantly. UAC is just another layer of protection, and it's never popped up when I didn't expect it to. Which actually just makes it an annoyance...

Anyway. Heroes FTW!!!! That writers strike though is definitely wreaking havoc on TV... if they don't get that resolved soon, the only thing that will be left on TV is friggin' reality TV shows. Which, imho, were all crap anyway.

~ tatakau

silverwing

100% agree

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Tatakau

Good points though. Users are definitely the weakest link in IT security - it's MUCH easier to fool a person than it is to fool a firewall or antivirus software.