James Knott wrote: > Marcello Romani wrote: >> >> "Requires Elevation" is a symptom of the increased security measures >> that have been implemented in Windows Vista. It's all part of the same >> concept that has you confirming that you are the administrator over >> and over again. >> In other words, "Requires Elevation" is a part of what's called "User >> Access Control" or UAC. >> There are two or three approaches to dealing with the message. >> The term "elevation" simply means that you need a "higher" level of >> access to the system than you currently have. The privileges >> associated with your current login need to be temporarily raised or >> "elevated" to a more privileged or powerful level. >> In practice, all this really means is that you need to be the >> administrator, or that you need to allow the program trying to run to >> elevate itself to administrative privileges by typing in the >> administrator password. >> >> > Yet another example of MS "security". Get users so fed up with > "Elevation" that they run as admin, instead of user, opening the door to > more malware infections. You should never need admin rights to work on > a common office document.
Absolutely, and it has never happened here in either Vista or Windows 7 - so something is happening or has happened on the OP's computer that he's not telling us... -- Registered Linux User no 240308 Say No to OOXML http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 gordonATgbpcomputingDOTcoDOTuk to email me remove the obvious! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
