OK...so you are saying there is a difference between the default admin on install and an admin you create? What is that difference? Does it not have to be *the* admin account if it's the only one there? Because under that logic, you'd be using a limited user to create a super user, that would be...odd.
I haven't seen the difference between a default admin and one that is created after install, to my eyes both operate the same under similar conditions. Mike On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Jeff Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > On new installs with one user, the single user (in this case my wife on > > her new laptop), is administrator. However, even though she is running > as > > admin, UAC will continue to prompt when permission is necessary, vista > > doesn't assume just because you have admin rights, you want everything > > in that session run in admin rights. > > Except, that it really isn't *the* admin account, but I'm beginning to > question the merits of this distinction. > > I have to admit my own confusion on this. I know that when I first > installed Vista, I was also taken aback that you still installed as the > admin, and did the same: enabled the true admin account and changed my own > account to a standard user account. However, I soon after found some > documentation that explained that the default account that was listed as an > administrator really was a limited user that could elevate to administrator > permissions when prompted, but damned if I can find that now. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
