Vista's default user account (the one created during the install)
is a member of the administrator group, but is not THE
administrator. The real administrator account is difficult to get to.
Furthermore, the default account runs at a security privilege level
of an ordinary user, so when anything 'administrative' needs to
be done, a prompt pops up requesting consent for temporary elevation
to administrator level. If you are running from a non-privileged
user account, a different prompt will come up, requesting login
with the administrator password.
Gary VanderMolen
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What I didn't get about Vista was what's actually changed in the model --
I've heard that there are lots of "are you sure" popups, but if that's
the old security config, with just a layer of annoying dialogue boxes,
then I'm not convinced it is any better than XP -- users will still run
as admin and just put up with the bother of clicking "YES" to everything.
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