Mad Mike Posted Jan 5, 2009, 11:47 pm	Click on Vista Start button, then go to Control Panel. Inside Control Panel, click on System and Maintenance link, follow by Administrator Tools at the bottom. An Administrator Tools window appears. From there, click on Local Security Policy applet. Alternatively, type secpol.msc in Start Search box and press Enter. Click Continue on User Account Control’s Windows needs your permission to continue running Microsoft Management Console (MMC) dialog box. On the left pane of Local Security Policy MMC, expand Security Settings (should be opened by default), then expand Local Policies. Click on Security Options branch. Double click on Accounts: Administrator account status setting, then select Enabled radio button on Local Security Setting tab of Properties window. Click on OK button. Log off, switch user or restart your computer to logon with activated Administrator account. if that doesnt work or you do not have local policy this way 1. Click on the Vista Start button, and type "cmd" in the Start Search box. 2. Right click on the Cmd returned on the search results pane above, then select Run as Administrator. (or, press Ctl-Shift-enter) 3. In the Command Prompt window, type the following text at the command line to set a password for administrator account. If you want to use a blank password for the Administrator account, skip this step. net user administrator password Replace "password" with the actual password string that you have chosen. Press Enter when done.Note that if your computer is a member of domain controller or has enabled complex password requirement in Local Security Policy, you will have to pick a really hard to remember password mixed with symbols. 4. Type the following command and press Enter to activate and enable the Administrator account: net user administrator /active:yes 5. The process should completed with the following message: The command completed successfully If no success message is returned, repeat the process again. 6. Log off your computer.
*sam* Posted Jan 6, 2009, 9:48 am	Does it nag you everytime you start the computer up, to "fix security problems"? That's something I find very annoying about Vista when you have User Access Control turned off.
Joel Autobaun Posted Jan 25, 2009, 10:24 pm	Yes it does and yes it's annoying. Not quite as annoying as releasing win7 less that 2 years from Vista, but annoying.
Mad Mike Posted Jan 25, 2009, 11:06 pm	This is not just turning off the user account control. Similar to when you boot windows XP into safe mode, you will have the administrator account available to log into when you boot vista normally. This is the same as logging onto linux (or unix) with the root user. no user account control and no are you sure? are you really sure? are you really really sure??? Windows 7 is Vista service pack 2 or 3 or whatever they get to when it comes out. It will look the same as vista (according to screenshots) Vista isnt a bad OS. Just takes a bit getting used to.
Big Daddy Posted May 9, 2009, 4:16 pm	Don't log in to your computer as an Administrator. That's bad security. When you need Admin rights for something, Vista is pretty good about prompting you on an as-needed basis, and the "Run As Administrator" option should be available if you want it explicitly. But you don't want your web browser, email, and every single other program to have full control of your system all the time. Darkwind just needs to be installed to a folder that your account has write permission to. There's a post here that suggests installing it to an alternate folder - that's a perfectly good idea. You can also change permissions on the default folder, here's how it works in Vista: With Windows Explorer, right click the "C:\Program Files\Darkwind" folder and select Properties. Click the Security tab Click the Edit button Provide Administrator credentials. If you are not prompted for this, you're already running as an Administrator and are the reason viruses thrive. So thanks for that. Select the "Users" entry in the top list of "Group or user names" In the "Permissions for Users" list below, check the Modify and Write boxes under "Allow" Click OK, and you should see a few seconds of updates being made to files and folders. This can all be done at the command line with the CACLS utility too. Ideally, darkwind would be a better Windows citizen and not try to write anything to its install folder, but the two workarounds are pretty reasonable.