TSGL: Vista rights problem

[Russell W. Coover]

H,

Glad you solved the problem. Don has a lot of knowledge. But for future
reference, with similar problems, there could be more than shutting off UAC
(as a sidelight, I have three Vista machines and I have UAC shut off on all
three).

Another thing that must be considered is whether or not the user is set up
as an Administrator. Because nobody touches my machines other than my wife
or I, and my wife doesn't play around with configuring or deleting anything,
I have our users listed as Administrators (but that is not good if more
other people use the machines, too). But even set up as an Administrator,
the machine may refuse to do something because you have insufficient rights.
If this happens, you have to go into Explorer and dig down to the programs
.exe file (usually in the Program Files folder). For example, to find an AVG
.exe, you would go into Program Files, Grisoft, and open the AVG7 folder
which has all the many AVG .exe files. Right click on the file that won't
run, and click on Properties. Open the Compatibility tab, and you will have
a chance to check a box to "Run this program as an Administrator".

It's easier than it sounds, but I've had to do this a lot. Since I only run
AVG on a Win 2k machine and an XP SP2 machine, I've not seen the problem
with Vista, but it may be a common one. 

Russ Coover 

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of H Davis
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 12:50 PM
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Subject: Re: TSGL: Vista rights problem

Don,

I managed to get this solved but the solution certainly wasn't obvious. 
It turned out to be the router which only had to be rebooted. Don't know 
why it went west but it happens.

The symptoms certainly didn't point in that direction and we did have 
internet access but as the night went on that got worse; slow responses, 
no responses, which started to make me suspicious. Oh well, another 
learning experience courtesy of Microsoft.

These new fangled computers are just too complicated. They'll never 
catch on.

Thanks for the help. I'm saving your response for the next time.

H Davis

Don Penlington wrote:
> At 08:50 PM 1/26/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>   
>> even wild speculation about what's going on
>> and how to fix it.>>
>>     
>
>
> First thing to check is User Account Control (UAC). Vista assumes by 
> default that the owner knows nothing and wants to install nothing. Great! 
> You own the computer but you can't do a damn thing with it. It completely 
> fooled me first time I looked at Vista.
>
> Open Control Panel/UAC and check that this is turned off. Possibly there's

> a function to disable it per program.
>
> Don Penlington
>
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