On 31 Dec 2005 at 0:58, Tony Lowe wrote: > >What I do is just "run as" Internet Explorer and then do "windows update" > >from there [out of my limited acct, of course]. > > I used to do that, too. But after one of the version changes to the > updates site (I forget which, or maybe is was after SP2) this method > no longer worked for me.
Hmm.. Two things: first, whatever it is, it happened well after SP2, because I've been doing the run/as hack until recently. Second, you're right: it *happens* to be the case that the last few windows updates I've done by hand [instead of letting windows do it by itself at 3AM] have included device drivers, and I thought it was the *drivers* that was forcing me to use the admin account explicitly... It hadn't occurred to me that it was the update, itself, that had changed. Bummer... I have noticed that before [with things like device drivers] and I've often wondered what the difference is in the runtime environments between running something *out* of the admin acct, versus running it *as* the admin account... /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
