On Sat, 10 May 2008 23:29:15 -0500, "Kenneth Evans"
<someone@microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>"Steph Peters" <xda@sandbenders.demon.co.uk.delete.invalid> wrote in message
>news:ni3n14lt6etc2bkptko5n6d4fho9tk5gbt@4ax.com.. .
>> You are totally stuck, because Active Sync will ONLY sync when run by an
>> administrator account. It just will not work properly without. This
>> behaviour has been known for a long time, and Microsoft have been asked to
>> change it, but they never did. And now that ActiveSync has been
>> superseded
>> by Windows Mobile Device Centre in Vista, they definitely aren't going to.
>
>Steph,
>
>Thanks for the information. I wasn't able to find it Googling.
>
>I did know that embeddedVisualStudio had to be run as Administrator. This
>was because they saved the state in HKLM instead of HKCU. This was an
>error, of course, but they wouldn't fix it then. It's probably the same
>folks.

Definitely not the same folks. And they are probably not communicating
with each other much (Microsoft is a large collection of largely
separate groups). But probably the same mindset about administrator.


>
>Given that that running as Administrator is a security problem, you would
>think Microsoft would be more concerned.

I'm pretty sure one design point for Vista was that folks would
_finally_ be able to do real work without being an Administrator. At
least one high-ranking Microsoft executive sure said as much, rather
strongly. I haven't paid close enough attention to say whether that
stayed a priority. I've heard mixed results about whether they
succeeded.


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