I am running Vista 64 Ultimate. I am using an admin account also. I do use UAC though. I wonder if turning UAC off is what is causing you issues? When I run regedit (from the search thing on the start menu), I do get a UAC pop-up. I click on continue and all is well.
I misread your earlier post and thought you were not running as admin. My understanding is that when you run as admin, you are really running at a lower level than admin and the system uses UAC to elevate you to admin level. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:10 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Vista Permissions > >You can right-click on the shortcut and select Run as Administrator (or set >the setting in the properties for the shortcut and run as admin). I think >that either way, it will make you enter the credentials of an administrator >if the current user is not one. That does not work on some things, like for example, opening regedit. When I go to run, and enter regedit I see <This task will be created with administrative privileges> but when I execute I see a pop up that reads Registry editing has been disable by your administrator.... which I don't get because I AM an administrator! But if I log out and log back in as THE Administrator then I can use regedit. > >And if I want to start loging in exclusively as the Administrator, is > >there a easy way to move all of windows settings from my current user > >to the Administrator account so I don't have to redo everything? > >The easiest way would be to just change your user logon to an admin account. I am already an ADMIN account!
