When is an Administrator not really an Administrator? | The Coffeehouse

Heywood_J
Trust me, I'm from the Internets

Apparently in Windows 7.

I've been playing around with 7057. Performance is good, but when it comes to installing programs or making changes to the system, even trivial changes, it's pretty annoying. Even with UAC set to it's lowest setting, there's lot's of "You need Administrator permission to do this". Although I can just click on "allow" it's still annoying. I check the user accounts and I'm an Administrator and there isn't any higher uber-administrator. So WTF?

One program I installed wouldn't let me enter the serial number ("this is not allowed by security policy - contact your system administrator") until I went into the registry and changed the permission on the appropriate registry key. That will be a lot of fun for the average clueless user.

Frankly, i object to all this "security". It's my computer. Just because I installed Windows, shouldn't mean that Microsoft can make me jump through hoops in order to do things on my computer.

stevo_
Human after all

cool

daSmirnov

By design.

If you want application to be running around all over the place, feel free to elevate them yourself. For most people this is a bad idea.

JeremyJ
The pioneers would be appalled!

If you don't like UAC then why not just turn it off?

ZippyV
Fired Up

Please be more specific.

phreaks

In reply to ZippyV

#Mar 18th @ 10:46 AM

Based on integral subsystem considerations, any associated supporting element
adds explicit performance limits to the structural design, based on system
engineering concepts. On the other hand, initiation of critical subsystem
development requires considerable systems analysis and trade-off studies to
arrive at the total system rationale. In particular, the independent
functional principle is further compounded when taking into account the
sophisticated hardware. In this regard, a constant flow of effective
communication recognizes other systems' importance and the necessity for the
preliminary qualification limit. Interestingly enough, a large proportion of
interface coordination communication must utilize and be functionally
interwoven with the management-by-contention principle.

http://hewgill.com/com/

AndyC

Excellent, it certainly sounds like the feedback on UAC has pushed back in the direction of being a useful feature rather than a pointless waste of time.

As to application installers that still don't work properly unless you manually elevate them rather than them doing it: I'd ditch the application. Frankly if the developers aren't competent enough to manage to embed a manifest file by now, it speaks volumes about the poor quality control of the whole thing.