Some questions about the Vista
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Run as Administrator: 1.) When your account type is administrator, why do you need to set the shortcut to "Run as Administrator" in order to have that privilege? Shouldn't that be the default privilege? Partitions: 2.) Back in the DOS days, up until XP, there are "Primary Partition", and the rest of the physical harddrive is called "Extended Partition", which includes "logical Partition". For example, drives C: D: and E:, C is the Primary Partition, and D, E are Logical Partitions that are part of the Extended Partition. Then you set the drive that contains Master Boot Record to be "Active", usually it's the C drive. When I use the Vista CD to partition and format the drive, every drive is set as "Primary" itself. Are there any distintions between Primary, extended, and logical partitions in the Vista? Or is this concept not used anymore? I used to use Partition Magic to partition harddrive, and before that, fdisk. This is the first time I use Vista CD to do this task, so I don't know if it's any different with XP CD. Thanks
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Run as Administrator: 1.) When your account type is administrator, why do you need to set the shortcut to "Run as Administrator" in order to have that privilege? Shouldn't that be the default privilege? Partitions: 2.) Back in the DOS days, up until XP, there are "Primary Partition", and the rest of the physical harddrive is called "Extended Partition", which includes "logical Partition". For example, drives C: D: and E:, C is the Primary Partition, and D, E are Logical Partitions that are part of the Extended Partition. Then you set the drive that contains Master Boot Record to be "Active", usually it's the C drive. When I use the Vista CD to partition and format the drive, every drive is set as "Primary" itself. Are there any distintions between Primary, extended, and logical partitions in the Vista? Or is this concept not used anymore? I used to use Partition Magic to partition harddrive, and before that, fdisk. This is the first time I use Vista CD to do this task, so I don't know if it's any different with XP CD. Thanks
Link2006 wrote:
When your account type is administrator, why do you need to set the shortcut to "Run as Administrator" in order to have that privilege? Shouldn't that be the default privilege?
It is a safety mechanism. For the majority of tasks you don't need admin rights, so the system reduces your rights until you need them. Then it asks if it is alright to elevate them. That way, if you get the UAC control at an odd time, you know that something it trying to do something it shouldn.t The main reason for this design descision is that many users run as admin all the time and then wonder how they got infected with viruses so easily.
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Run as Administrator: 1.) When your account type is administrator, why do you need to set the shortcut to "Run as Administrator" in order to have that privilege? Shouldn't that be the default privilege? Partitions: 2.) Back in the DOS days, up until XP, there are "Primary Partition", and the rest of the physical harddrive is called "Extended Partition", which includes "logical Partition". For example, drives C: D: and E:, C is the Primary Partition, and D, E are Logical Partitions that are part of the Extended Partition. Then you set the drive that contains Master Boot Record to be "Active", usually it's the C drive. When I use the Vista CD to partition and format the drive, every drive is set as "Primary" itself. Are there any distintions between Primary, extended, and logical partitions in the Vista? Or is this concept not used anymore? I used to use Partition Magic to partition harddrive, and before that, fdisk. This is the first time I use Vista CD to do this task, so I don't know if it's any different with XP CD. Thanks
Link2006 wrote:
When your account type is administrator, why do you need to set the shortcut to "Run as Administrator" in order to have that privilege? Shouldn't that be the default privilege?
You need to read up on UAC. First read MS's description of it, then read everyone's complaints about how they hate it. ;)
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Link2006 wrote:
When your account type is administrator, why do you need to set the shortcut to "Run as Administrator" in order to have that privilege? Shouldn't that be the default privilege?
You need to read up on UAC. First read MS's description of it, then read everyone's complaints about how they hate it. ;)
--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam.
Michael Dunn wrote:
You need to read up on UAC
You're assuming quite a bit here...
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