Hello Mike,
You can easily turn the user account control off in Vista. Move into the
start menu and move off of the search box. Press C until you get to control
panel and press enter key. When the search box comes up for the control
panel type in "user account control" (without the quotes) and use tab key
until you get to the choice for turning the user account control on or off.
Press enter key on the link. In the resultant box check or uncheck the
checkbox using spacebar and use tab key to the OK button and press spacebar.
There will be a confirmation dialog that gives a warning and you will need
to confirm that you want to turn off the user account control if that is
what you chose to do.
I really don't suggest that you turn user account control off. If you
choose to then be sure that all other security programs are up-to-date and
active. What I suggest is that you run UAC in quiet mode. The easiest way
to do that is to download TweakUAC and use it. After downloading TweakUAC
you do not have to install it. When using it for the first time you might
need to accept a license agreement. If I remember right, I might have had
to use JAWS cursor to find the button or graphic for accepting the license,
but I am not sure if that is right. If you turn off UAC, the protected mode
for Internet Explorer 7 is also turned off and not active. Below is some
additional info that you might want to consider along with a link where
TweakUAC can be downloaded. When you use TweakUAC there will be choices for
turning UAC off, leaving it on or using it in quiet mode. Running it in
quiet mode will prevent the elevation prompts from running but will keep
Internet Explorer's protected mode active. .
The IE7 protected mode is off if UAC is disabled. It is based on the User
Interface Privilege Isolation technology introduced in Vista to control such
things as user permission levels.
When Internet Explorer 7 is running in Protected Mode (which is the default
in all but the "Trusted" security zone) the process runs with low rights,
even if Internet Explorer is being run by an administrator. This means that
even if an attacker defeated all defense mechanisms and got control of the
Internet Explorer process and managed to run some arbitrary code, it would
be severely limited in what it could do. Nearly all of the file system and
registry would be off limits for writing, reducing the ability of an exploit
to modify the system or harm your files. The code wouldn't have enough
privileges to install software, put files in your Startup folder, hijack
browser settings, or do other nasty things.
If you download and use TweakUAC you will be able to run UAC in its quiet
mode. In such a mode, you keep all the positive effects of UAC, such as
Internet Explorer operating in the protected mode, applications starting
without the administrative privileges by default, etc. The only thing that
gets changed is that you will no longer see the infamous "Windows needs your
permission to continue" messages whenever you attempt to make a change to
your Vista configuration, or when you run a program that needs
administrative rights.
http://www.tweak-uac.com/download/
Brian Lee
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Brian Lee
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Barbara" <[email protected]>
To: "jaws-users-list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 1:30 PM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] Vista administrative rights
Hi All,
A friend has just become active with Jaws again. He has not used Jaws
since
version 3.5 or there abouts and not used Jaws in over 5 years. He now has
a
computer with Vista Home Premium & Jaws 10.0.1139. When he tries to make
changes a dialogue box comes up saying something about administrative
rights. He then presses space bar on okay and moves on. I am an XP user
and would like to know the steps to tell him how to keep dialogue boxes
such
as these from coming up. Would the same steps be taken in Vista that you
take with XP? If not could someone please supply us with step by step
instructions? Thank you all very much for your help. Take care.
Mike
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