I don't suggest doing this either. Rick
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Lee" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Vista administrative rights 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 [email protected] 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. 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