Hello,

The reason you are being asked for permission to launch programs and system
management tools is because of a new feature called UAC (User Account
Control). UAC is Microsoft's built in system for allowing and denying access
to system files and functions. It is meant to be a way to prevent spyware
and malware from doing any damage to your system. Currently there are some
problems with user profile folders and the user not being able to access
them or not have enough permissions assigned to them. From what I know MS is
working on these issues and should be fixed by the Gold RTM build.
--
Tom Ziegmann
Microsoft Certified Professional
Windows Vista / Server Longhorn TechBeta Tester
Windows Server 2003 TechBeta Tester
"Andris11" <Andris11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8AFD47AE-441D-4A6D-A8E0-C4BF7AD1CC6E@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I have a clean install of Vista RC1 build 5600.
> There is just one user account which is in the Admistrators group (that
> one
> that was created during instalation).
>
> 1. I'm very often being asked to allow permission to launch programs and
> sometimes twice. I understand the check where the publisher is unknown,
> but
> why all those checks in case managing the system itself for example? Any
> reason for that?
>
>
> 2. I also experienced problems with files copied from WinXP Home which
> cannot have security settings at all (as to the Home edition limitation),
> for
> example Visual Studio Express cannot save any of the transferred project
> files until I explicitly allow the USERS (!!) group full acces to the
> files.
> Why? The admin group had already all the permissions granted, and I am an
> admin?
>
> Yet I suspect similar behaviour for some programs, even those told to be
> Vista compliant (e.g. Opera 9.02) cannot write their settings, i.e. cannot
> write to my user folders (<drive>:\Users\MyName\AppData\Roaming...).
>
> I didn't do anything with user accounts since the clean install, Is my
> admin
> account not "admin enough"? ;-)
> As well the question is whether apps cannot write their setting because of
> some limitation of my account or whether that is an issue with them.
>
> Thanks for some explanation or solution.
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