Uh, I just did it on my Vista Home laptop.
From the Admin account:
1. Access the Control Panel and select Classic View.
2. Locate and click User Accounts.
3. Select the Turn User Account Control on or off and respond appropriately
to the UAC.
4. Clear the Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer.
5. Click OK.
6. Restart Windows
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] New Vista computer experiences
This must be the problem that I have installing older software on a Vista
64-bit computer that I just bought.
When I insert the application CD, a message appears that I don't have
administration rights to install the software.
According to the MS link that you provided, the only way to install the
software is to turn off UAC if I understand it. Unfortunately, Vista Home
Premium does not provide a way to turn off UAC, so I must buy a new
software application that costs as much as the new computer.
Is there any way to install this software?
Jeff Wright wrote:
I thought the same thing at first, but no, you really are a standard user
with limited rights until you elevate the user to admin rights with UAC.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691.aspx
MS didn't do a very good job publicizing this aspect of Vista's security.
Come to think of it, they didn't do a very good job publicizing
*anything*
about Vista, except how to get sued for letting the marketing trolls
handle
everything.
-----Original Message-----
Let her get settled in with it before you play with it, and let us
know how she likes it. Eventually, you'll want to go in and set her up
as a User, since apparently by default the owner is still inexplicably
an Admin.
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