Hi Gary, Vista's user account control is customisable, but at the moment I can't remember the program that controls that. I want to say secpol, but not sure. Anyway there are different levels you can set user account control to like: automatically elivate, don't elivate, prompt for password, and prompt to elivate. Under the admin options for the administrator you can set everything to automatically elivate, but leave other users of the system to prompt to elivate or prompt for password. I only recommend doing this if you are only using the administrator account for system admin tasks rather than as a normal user playing mp3s, browsing the web, reading mail, bla. Anyway, part of the reason I know this stuff is I am personally studdying to get my MSCE, Microsoft Certified Engineering, license. I hope once I enroll in the MSCE program, get my license, it will open doors and new jobs that would otherwise be closed to me. Having a Microsoft engineering license gives one allot more respect in the business world than just an Associates degree or BS in Computer Science. The sad thing is there is a huge difference of knolege required for a novis computer user and the engineer/specialist. The novis will likely go out and buy a book like the Idiots Guide to Windows, Windows for Dummies, etc which are great books for helping them get the internet going, send and receive email, customising their desktop, etc however never gets into how to do important things like configuring system security, user account control and user management, changing system configurations, customising system services, and on and on we could go. It would be my job as a tech support engineer, administrator, etc to know all those things. One good example of this was last week when I reinstalled Vista my wife accidently typed in Tom Ward for my name, and it showed up in the registry as Tom Ward. However, I registered Vista under my full name. I had to open the Vista registry editor, and change my name and company keys sow that product activation would have my correct name and company name. Sometimes as an administrator you are called upon to do stuff like that. It would have been foolish to completely reinstall Vista just to change the name, and the solution took maybe two minutes tops by editing the registry, but a novis wouldn't know that. They would probably assume they screwed it up, and do the entire install from scratch.
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