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Vista new "security" features more a pain in the butt then ...
I actually bought a program for XP that did, but was less user friendly than the UAC. -- Larry Maturo "winattack" <winatt...@iteso.eu> wrote in message The weirdest thing is that I can download and execute another exe files without any problems, eventhougth their icons also have the Security Center 4 color

Importing pst file "you don't have appropriate permission to p
I think this group could make any problems you are having with UAC permissions or others in Vista very quickly. I am not clear what you mean by MSFT letting im giving up on vista. my job depends on it and this OS is not letting me open, copy, or sometimes even erase random files or folders. its too much and i

[Rival] Windows Vista = XP with Less Applications, Less ...
Oh, and you can set security permissions on folders and files, just like Unix. Get your shit together, and you'll never see a UAC dialog again ... until you'll be glad to see one. You using 32-bit? I decided to order the 64-bit disk before trying it out on a spare hard drive in my system. I have XP Pro x64 working

Unable to open or download .exe files from internet
I discovered that if I move the files to my memory stick which uses FAT allocating table instead of NTFS, I have no problem deleting the file. Also if I move the files to my other computer (with XP on NTFS) using network, I still have no problem with deleting the files, so something is very wrong with my Vista PC.

Vista bugs
Gistcheckin Gistchec...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public internetexplorer general Question: You have Vista - Did you upgrade from XP to Vista? If you use an administrator account to reset the password, you will permanently lose access to any e‑mail messages or encrypted files that are on that account.

VERY Disappointed with Vista
Re: Is there a "standard place" to store writeable not plublic shared files to please UAC? Hello guys, Just to let you know I have been fighting through this I tested it on 2000, XP and VISTA and our install worked excellent. The problem is XP Server 2003 does not have a CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS folder and our

OT: Vista...
We install FRx outside of Program Files on Vista. 2. For SP 9, it seems to not pick the right destination for FRx when it 'auto-finds' the install. I put FRX on 3 XP machines and on the win 2k3 server and they all are working fine. I tried frx on 2 different vista macines with UAC on and off, run as admin,

Unable to open .exe file
UAC does not leverage the Power Users group, and the permissions granted to the Power Users group on Windows XP have been removed from Windows Vista. However, as a Windows Vista Ultimate Standard User, he cannot download research or other files from the internet and/or he cannot install any programs

100 Days with Vista
Our product works fine on Win2K and XP, but when we try to run it on a Vista system, nothing works! From our initial debugging, it appears that UAC is the I understand that we can use manifest files to bypass virtualization for our own applications, but how can we get around it for our DLLs that link to other

The codes succeeded in XP but failed in Vista.
XP cannot access everythuing in my Vista machine, although I tell it to (UAC off, course)! Open/share every single folder, but it never happens. Does anyone know how to make Vista COMPLETELY (all folders and files) visible to XP?? PS: haven't read the article above yet. Will give it a try! -- beto666.

PNG mystery?
George, Just a heads up if you run into problems caused by UAC and Virtualization. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927387 Virtualization only comes into play if your application attempts to write to Program Files or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. If you store user settings in the recommended locations (%APPDATA%,

Another Vista Problem(Index.dat)
Windows Vista has many new security features that cannot be avoided without disabling them. GolfTEC recommends that you use Windows XP to view your weblessons. .... there are some still images that won't come up when I click the appropriate link, Details? Some Vista users have reported problems with .png files.

Upgraded from XP to Vista Premium-Explorer is screwed up
They will not open. If I tell them to "open with" Winmail, my Vista Winmail Inbox opens. If you google for exporting .dbx OE mail from XP to Vista, I also know that even when I do a repair install (that I've never seen fail with a working HD), it does not setup XP with all its files intact possibly due to some

Files Remain Hidden Even though I selected show Hidden & Prote
I have 3 desktops, 2 running XP Home and 1 running Vista Home Premium. All three OS's have been updated to today's date. My problem is that I cannot download anything from the: http://download.microsoft.com/ pages from any of the PC's, and that's a LOT of files I can't get at! The error messages I get are: - You

Networking XP PC to Vista Laptop
I've tried turning protection off whether it be IE7 security, UAC or anti virus etc but all to no avail and previous posting hasn't offered solution. I am trying to download files from the internet which are .exe Vista takes me through the whole process of asking whether I want to open or save the file and I

Vista TP helper program - POP Peeper
Windows Vista has many new security features that cannot be avoided without disabling them. GolfTEC recommends that you use Windows XP to view your weblessons. .... there are some still images that won't come up when I click the appropriate link, Details? Some Vista users have reported problems with .png files.

Vista glitch is too much-can i go back to XP???
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. a number of other disk intensive disk defrag on a new instalation? What the fuck are you running, windows 3.0? The defrag also rearranges the files for faster startup.

ANN: Vista "Gotchas" You Should Know About
Also, in order for some of my programs to update, the UAC had to be turned off. Otherwise, the updated files would not go into the "mirrored" program files Here are some links with info on the purpose/use of UAC. There is a paradigm shift in Vista, UAC is one aspect of that. It will be interesting to see what

Vista & XP dual booting: Eula questions +
Also, in order for some of my programs to update, the UAC had to be turned off. Otherwise, the updated files would not go into the "mirrored" program files to Do a dual boot with XP so you can keep things running as fine tune the Vista system. I can see why you were so frustrated, and you got a typical gargabe

xp to vista Migration failed: Access is denied.
In most cases, with "well-mannered" applications, it's usually as simple as opening the undesired program and deselecting the option to "display icon in the Also, in order for some of my programs to update, the UAC had to be turned off. Otherwise, the updated files would not go into the "mirrored" program files