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Giving UAC a second chance or why putting a silk dress on a ...
MLD Dual booting here -Windows XP and Windows Vista. Installed Office 2000 Professional into Vista the other night and set up shared data partition. With Excel you will need to look at UAC ( User Access Control ) settings as files created elsewhere become read only. I have turned off UAC, which solves the

Wii Outsells Microsoft's BoomBox360 20:1, Boom Boxes ...
I just finshed working on one of these files. All I want to do it move it to my G drive. Which was in XP a very simple process. Click on the file in Windows Explorer, cut, then paste where you want it moved to or just drag and drop, whatever... A new feature in Vista assuming the file is the same name now brings up

Who else is happy about Vista?
Open up anything and you got the "hourglass". Lots of UAC interruptions it would seem, but I was also doing admin operations. But it just felt slow. The defrag also rearranges the files for faster startup. You are quite the commedian. You sound like an audio salesman reporting that oversampling CD players

ANS: "What's the deal with UAC (Windows Needs Your Permission scre
Are there issues in file transfers between both OS's, ie are drives shareable in both OS as they were in Win2K/XP dual boots? You should have no problem sharing data files, but I believe Vista will corrupt any WinXP System Volume Information files, used by WinXP's System Recovery. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help

SHAME ON MS !
Eventually I had to open a command prompt as Administrator and copy the file in that way (which it did without complaint). Tbh up until now I've had no problems with Vista security. I like UAC since it's an improvement on running XP as a limited user and I don't have any objection to being asked to confirm

[Rival] Windows Vista = XP with Less Applications, Less ...
and run batch files? Depends on your needs. You can either store them locally in the directory you need them or store them in /usr/bin if they are to be globally .... It's got to be drawn somewhere else you end up with UAC and Vista. If "ending up with UAC and Vista" means not having malware trash my data,

Vista / XP / Win98 networking
Have you turned off UAC first? Also isn't there another choice to do repair besides from the command prompt? There used to be in XP, but its been so long to put on quite a show and ended up fixed whatever was wrong with all but a couple files of countless thousands. I would assume Vista got smarter, not dumber.

Cannot Download Microsoft Files!
That's because they no longer are your files in Vista's mind, but they belong to a particular owner which you may need to change to match the user you logged in as. Two ways to work around UAC. 1. Just turn the much cursed "feature" off (easy way) 2. Think like Vista thinks If you want to keep UAC on to get some of

Which XP to use
It scans protected resources including thousands of files, libraries, critical folders, and essential registry keys, and it replaces those that are corrupted with intact ones. It fixes a lot of problems in Windows XP, OE, Windows Vista, Win Mail, IE6, and on Vista or if it is installed on XP, IE7.

Permissions to view Pictures
Yes, UAC and DEP are supposed to help with this, but DEP will be set to its lower setting, and UAC will be turned off, on the vast majority of Vista boxes, for reasons we've already discussed. And since it's very likely that you will still be running your Windows box as an admin, if you're going to open a file with

how to take full control over pc in vista?
... <mayaXXyan...@mindXXspring.com> wrote: ¤ > ¤ > Did you actually read his post or do feel that any application should have ¤ free reign over the files ¤ > in the system (open or not)? Vista will be adopted just as XP was, over time and probably after a service pack or two. Paul ~~~~ Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)

Which XP to use
The process for expanding, shrinking, deleting, or adding partitions: Right click on computer, select "manage", accept the UAC prompt, open the tree item "storage" (left pane), Partition 1 has XP Partition 2 has personal files (no apps installed) Partition 3 has Vista. Dual Boot is working fine. Question.

Delete .exe files
Open up anything and you got the "hourglass". Lots of UAC interruptions it would seem, but I was also doing admin operations. But it just felt slow. The defrag also rearranges the files for faster startup. Which is needed very much, given that Vista is so extremely slow Every µSecond will help to boost the

Vista is much nicer if you turn off UAC
It doesn't have to be malware to interfere, anything that alters, adds, or removes files can potentially be a cause. Vista is vastly different than XP, and if processes for all users were to be shown each time TM is opened it would also involve an additional UAC prompt for elevated privileges.

How to open .dbx mail as .eml files on Vista/Conversion?
However, even doing this leaves me with the inability to take ownership of a few files, such as the page file, the hibernate file, and some extremely-low-level system files. It also leaves me with an inability to open my folders on the Vista drive from within XP, which is completely inexcusable, and defeats the

Task Manager Not Remembering Show processes from all users
I have never had it crash with Vista. I also turned off UAC. I am not sure "why I shouldn't". I have been a network admin for 20 years and so far no I don't want some things to "Open" by Default. I want the "Edit" to be the default. Especially with my vbscripting. I want the files to Edit when I double click on

My month with Vista
"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote: Norm, Did you relocate the Temporary Internet Files location, per chance? Perhaps you can mail me (drop "XOX." from my email id) and we can work on this issue. Just a reminder that opening IE7 by right clicking and using open as administrator fixes the problem as well as turning off UAC.

Modifying Open and Save As Dialog Boxes
More specifically, how do I access (and add files to or delete files in) the Documents and Settings folder? In a user account, Vista will not let me share Using this account, as your everyday account, will take you back to the level of security that you had in XP. Malicous programs that infect the system will

Vista security overview: too little too late
Installing I first attempted to upgrade from XP to Vista and followed all the correct procedures however everything was terribly slow and the system was You can disable UAC as well if you wish. File Explorer File Explorer is possibly the biggest regression of any Windows feature ever. Just opening a local

Protected Mode
But, don't you think that MS should actually have help about that in the 2007 Office help files instead of giving people information about how to do it in 2003 Mind you... there's not a lot about Vista that I like. But, the way search and Favorite Links work make up for a lot of that UAC pain (for me, at least)