TSGL: Vista rights problem

Mon Jan 28 11:32:35 EST 2008

Glad you're doing OK, Russ.  One of my wife's club members (California 
French Bulldog Club) lives near Highland headed up towards your way and 
was at the San Francisco Cow Palace dog show over the past weekend--he 
told her they were getting tons of rain and snow up in the San 
Bernardino mountains.  That's good I suppose, Southern California needs 
the water.  Four feet of new snow, glad it's you and not me.  We've had 
about a foot at my ranch, that's enough for me.  As much as I enjoy the 
snow, I've always wanted to go up to the snow, not have it come to 
me--LOL.  The high mountain areas above me have had 6-8 feet of new 
snow.  I'm going up to Sierra Ski Ranch skiing with several buddies 
later this week when the weather breaks, I can't wait to ski the really 
deep stuff  (I started skiing at Sierra Ski Ranch--which is now called 
Sierra at Tahoe, btw--when I was 6 years old, a tad over 50 years ago.  
I buy a season's pass every year and go skiing at least weekly, usually 
at Sierra but sometimes Heavenly Valley or Squaw Valley,  but I'm glad I 
don't live in the really deep stuff).

Question--what kind of Internet connection do you have up in the high 
country where you live??  I'm assuming it's not dial-up, since you are 
obviously a power user of your computer systems--do you have 
satellite??  Lake Tahoe is about the same elevation as you are at, I'm 
not sure if they have broadband Internet up there or not.
Take care and watch those icy roads.
Lee in the Mountains of Northern California  

Russell W. Coover wrote:
> Thanks, H.
>
> We've had, over the last few days, about 4 feet of snow. Last night a warmer
> storm hit, the temperature got up to about 39 degrees, and we've had about
> 10 inches of rain. But now it's snowing again, the temperature has dropped
> to 32, with lightning and thunder. Last I looked, we've added about 4 inches
> of snow. Whoops, a CBS weather report says that we should expect another 3
> feet of snow the rest of the night. 
>
> But other than transportation problems and occasional power outages (we've a
> generator we can switch over to), we've have no major problems where I live.
> Our house is at an altitude of 6220 feet above sea level, but we are close
> enough to the top so any running water generally runs right through or past
> our property. While the fire we had in October surrounded our home (about
> 1/3 of a mile away in all directions), most of the burn was at altitudes
> below ours, so the mud runoff is not affecting us. About 4 years ago, we had
> 13 inches of rain in a 24 hour period, and it put about 6 inches of mud on
> our patio and walkways. So we spend a lot of money and built swales to
> modify the way the water would run, and we haven't had any problems since. 
>
> My wife just told me that I have to take her down to the flatlands
> (Redlands, CA) tomorrow for a Doctors appointment. I hope that I can get dug
> out in the morning and that the street I live on and the Highway (18 and
> 330) is plowed. I have a 4 wheel drive Toyota truck (and an all wheel drive
> Subaru with snow tires), but the road down the hill is a mountain road (read
> curvy, narrow, and dangerous) with plenty of places to have problems. But
> I've been down and up that road so many times, I could almost drive it with
> my eyes closed. I won't (close my eyes).
>
> Russ 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of H Davis
> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 5:59 PM
> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
> Subject: Re: TSGL: Vista rights problem
>
> Thanks for the info Russ. I knew I had read something about this in the 
> past but it didn't stick since I don't have a Vista machine. I'm saving 
> all this stuff for "future reference".
>
> BTW, are you being snowed on, rained on or sliding merrily down the 
> mountain on a sea of mud. The weather reports for SoCal look ominous 
> from here in the east. Take care. As you pointed out, there aren't that 
> many Coovers that we can afford to loose one.
>
> H Davis
>
> Russell W. Coover wrote:
>   
>> 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
>> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
>> 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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