Run As Adminstrator - why hasn't it saved us?
- From: riix <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:41:51 -0500
Hi all, I'm totally confused and wondering if I got this wrong or, after
2 decades of NT its still microsoft that's got this wrong.
- I figure that better than UAC would be to run as Power User, and use
the "Run As Administrator" when needed - which is often - Visual Studio,
Event Viewer, IIS, SQL Server, etc.
- so I enabled the Administrator id, turn off UAC (after all, won't
need it anymore and might speed up this doggy), downgraded my id to 'PU'
and try it out.
- Boots and I log on (so far so good). Go to run VS - what? "Run As
Administrator" is grayed out ??? so I google this and find out you
gotta have UAC running to get this to work .. DUH Microsoft ??? what's
the connection between these two concepts ??
- But ok, log on as Administrator, turn UAC back on, reboot and log on
again as a 'PU' . OK, let's try VS again - "Run As Administrator" works
! and voila a (big) box pops up (what ever happened to respect for
screen real estate?) and I have to select an id - it lists my PU id even
if its not an administrator (so why??) but, anyhow, I select
"Administrator", enter password and ..
... sure bloody enough it works - I'm now running VS as the
"Administrator" id ..
... err ... you gotta be kidding right? Because I'm running as
"Administrator" .. like I have the Administrator's (My) Document and
preferences etc ..
... Unbeliveable - what's wrong with this picture Microsoft?
I didn't want to run as the Administrator ID - I just wanted to run
with Administrator RIGHTS - i.e., to be ethereally in the Administrators
Group for the life of this single process !!!!!
Jumping heck, I can't believe we've been with this since NT3 and
Microsoft still don't seem to get it.
Wouldn't this solve so many darn problems? Even to the point of making
UAC unnecessary????
SO .. I'm bitterly disappointed in MS, in Vista. Back to being
Administrator and the ever constant UAC nag.
Or back to XP .. (anyone have XP64 experiences?)
Or just give up, and jump over to Eclipse, Java and Linux ..
--
riix
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