Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance
Vista Admin's ( log on) do not have full authority may be able to right click/run as/administrator to get there. not in front of the vista box at the moment. lame fp At 05:02 AM 8/15/2008, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: I'm trying to modify my startup and recovery settings in the advanced part of the system config panel and it won't let me. Says I need to be an administrator. But both user accounts I tried it from ARE administrators. What gives? Brian -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- You tell 'em Custard Pie, you've got the crust.
Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance
Okay this is just frustrating. I used net user administrator /active:yes to enable the hidden real admin account at a command prompt and got a success message. So I logged off and logged back in as administrator, but the stupid startup and recovery settings STILL says I'm not part of a group that is allowed to make changes. WTF? This is a fresh Vista install from just 2 days ago. Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vista Admin's ( log on) do not have full authority may be able to right click/run as/administrator to get there. not in front of the vista box at the moment. lame fp At 05:02 AM 8/15/2008, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: I'm trying to modify my startup and recovery settings in the advanced part of the system config panel and it won't let me. Says I need to be an administrator. But both user accounts I tried it from ARE administrators. What gives? Brian -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- You tell 'em Custard Pie, you've got the crust.
Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance
Brian, You could try temporarily turning off the UAC in Users part of Control Panel and see if that helps. Regards, Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: dowbeave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:13 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance Okay this is just frustrating. I used net user administrator /active:yes to enable the hidden real admin account at a command prompt and got a success message. So I logged off and logged back in as administrator, but the stupid startup and recovery settings STILL says I'm not part of a group that is allowed to make changes. WTF? This is a fresh Vista install from just 2 days ago. Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vista Admin's ( log on) do not have full authority may be able to right click/run as/administrator to get there. not in front of the vista box at the moment. lame fp At 05:02 AM 8/15/2008, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: I'm trying to modify my startup and recovery settings in the advanced part of the system config panel and it won't let me. Says I need to be an administrator. But both user accounts I tried it from ARE administrators. What gives? Brian -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- You tell 'em Custard Pie, you've got the crust. -- Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: dowbeave
Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance
I thought of that but UAC was already off. One of the beauties of creating a custom Vista install with vlite is to set it off by default from the very beginning. Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Beave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, You could try temporarily turning off the UAC in Users part of Control Panel and see if that helps. Regards, Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: dowbeave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:13 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance Okay this is just frustrating. I used net user administrator /active:yes to enable the hidden real admin account at a command prompt and got a success message. So I logged off and logged back in as administrator, but the stupid startup and recovery settings STILL says I'm not part of a group that is allowed to make changes. WTF? This is a fresh Vista install from just 2 days ago. Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vista Admin's ( log on) do not have full authority may be able to right click/run as/administrator to get there. not in front of the vista box at the moment. lame fp At 05:02 AM 8/15/2008, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: I'm trying to modify my startup and recovery settings in the advanced part of the system config panel and it won't let me. Says I need to be an administrator. But both user accounts I tried it from ARE administrators. What gives? Brian -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- You tell 'em Custard Pie, you've got the crust. -- Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: dowbeave
Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance
If you used an unsupported third-party utility to generate a custom Vista image, then who knows what potential issues you could have. Good luck. There's a reason it's unsupported. If UAC is disabled and your account is an administrator, my guess is that vlite screwed up something. It sure didn't play well with SP1, at least initially. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 12:58 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance I thought of that but UAC was already off. One of the beauties of creating a custom Vista install with vlite is to set it off by default from the very beginning. Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Beave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, You could try temporarily turning off the UAC in Users part of Control Panel and see if that helps. Regards, Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: dowbeave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:13 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance Okay this is just frustrating. I used net user administrator /active:yes to enable the hidden real admin account at a command prompt and got a success message. So I logged off and logged back in as administrator, but the stupid startup and recovery settings STILL says I'm not part of a group that is allowed to make changes. WTF? This is a fresh Vista install from just 2 days ago. Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vista Admin's ( log on) do not have full authority may be able to right click/run as/administrator to get there. not in front of the vista box at the moment. lame fp At 05:02 AM 8/15/2008, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: I'm trying to modify my startup and recovery settings in the advanced part of the system config panel and it won't let me. Says I need to be an administrator. But both user accounts I tried it from ARE administrators. What gives? Brian -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- You tell 'em Custard Pie, you've got the crust. -- Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: dowbeave
Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance
Maybe that was is, although it's hard to see how that would happen. I guess my only way to know is to nuke it all and start over. But then I would have to deal with UAC all over again. I don't mind it on my Ubuntu box but man is it annoying on Vista. How is it that Microsoft can take a concept that has been around *NIX since the dawn of the computer age and still manage to make it horribly annoying and obtrusive? Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you used an unsupported third-party utility to generate a custom Vista image, then who knows what potential issues you could have. Good luck. There's a reason it's unsupported. If UAC is disabled and your account is an administrator, my guess is that vlite screwed up something. It sure didn't play well with SP1, at least initially. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 12:58 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance I thought of that but UAC was already off. One of the beauties of creating a custom Vista install with vlite is to set it off by default from the very beginning. Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Beave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, You could try temporarily turning off the UAC in Users part of Control Panel and see if that helps. Regards, Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: dowbeave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:13 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance Okay this is just frustrating. I used net user administrator /active:yes to enable the hidden real admin account at a command prompt and got a success message. So I logged off and logged back in as administrator, but the stupid startup and recovery settings STILL says I'm not part of a group that is allowed to make changes. WTF? This is a fresh Vista install from just 2 days ago. Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vista Admin's ( log on) do not have full authority may be able to right click/run as/administrator to get there. not in front of the vista box at the moment. lame fp At 05:02 AM 8/15/2008, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: I'm trying to modify my startup and recovery settings in the advanced part of the system config panel and it won't let me. Says I need to be an administrator. But both user accounts I tried it from ARE administrators. What gives? Brian -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- You tell 'em Custard Pie, you've got the crust. -- Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: dowbeave
Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance
XP64 f t w. Vista is a giant flaming sack of turds, I can't believe anyone is still using it. On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:21:09PM -0400, Brian Weeden wrote: Maybe that was is, although it's hard to see how that would happen. I guess my only way to know is to nuke it all and start over. But then I would have to deal with UAC all over again. I don't mind it on my Ubuntu box but man is it annoying on Vista. How is it that Microsoft can take a concept that has been around *NIX since the dawn of the computer age and still manage to make it horribly annoying and obtrusive? Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you used an unsupported third-party utility to generate a custom Vista image, then who knows what potential issues you could have. Good luck. There's a reason it's unsupported. If UAC is disabled and your account is an administrator, my guess is that vlite screwed up something. It sure didn't play well with SP1, at least initially. Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 12:58 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance I thought of that but UAC was already off. One of the beauties of creating a custom Vista install with vlite is to set it off by default from the very beginning. Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Beave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian, You could try temporarily turning off the UAC in Users part of Control Panel and see if that helps. Regards, Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: dowbeave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:13 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Another Vista annoyance Okay this is just frustrating. I used net user administrator /active:yes to enable the hidden real admin account at a command prompt and got a success message. So I logged off and logged back in as administrator, but the stupid startup and recovery settings STILL says I'm not part of a group that is allowed to make changes. WTF? This is a fresh Vista install from just 2 days ago. Brian On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM, FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vista Admin's ( log on) do not have full authority may be able to right click/run as/administrator to get there. not in front of the vista box at the moment. lame fp At 05:02 AM 8/15/2008, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: I'm trying to modify my startup and recovery settings in the advanced part of the system config panel and it won't let me. Says I need to be an administrator. But both user accounts I tried it from ARE administrators. What gives? Brian -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- You tell 'em Custard Pie, you've got the crust. -- Tim The Beave Lider E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: dowbeave -- Bryan G. Seitz
