A Windows Vista forum. Vista Banter

Welcome to Vista Banter.

You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions, articles and access our other FREE features. By joining our free community you will have access to ask questions and reply to others posts, upload your own photos and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!

If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact support.

Go Back   Home » Vista Banter forum » Microsoft Windows Vista » Vista Administration, Accounts and Passwords
Site Map Home Register Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Vista Administration, Accounts and Passwords Queries, comments and issues relating to the administration of Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords)

Admin Accounts



 
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old September 7th 06, 03:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
[email protected]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 9
Default Admin Accounts

Well lets just say that vista is getting annoying in this regard,
presently i am testing the x64 version of Vista(RC1), and the
account that you make @ installation should be the admin account
right? wrong, you can view all the processes in teh task manager, u
cant login in Safe Mode, but strangely i could make a new account,
an admin account and from that I could do everything, was quite
weird actually, and this happedned on teh x86 PreRC1 release too,
so dont know if this is an isolated problem or just my fault but it
happened twice so just thought id post.
--
----------------------------------------------
Posted with NewsLeecher v3.5 Beta 3
* Binary Usenet Leeching Made Easy
* http://www.newsleecher.com/?usenet
----------------------------------------------

  #2 (permalink)  
Old September 8th 06, 10:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
Montreal MCT
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 48
Default Admin Accounts

Hey there Jerry,

Actually you are half right: The account you create on installation IS an
admin account. However Microsoft has built in a lot of safeguards, such as
every time you try to perform an administrative task it wants you to confirm
it. As well it runs some programs in a reduced rights mode for security. If
you want to runt them in full admin mode you have to right-click on them and
click 'Run as Administrator'.

I hope this helps clear things up for you!

M
--
MDG, MCT
MCSA (2003), MCSA (2000), MCDST.
Certified Small Business Specialist
Visit my blog at http://www.mitpro.ca/Blogs/tabid/59/...2/Default.aspx


" wrote:

Well lets just say that vista is getting annoying in this regard,
presently i am testing the x64 version of Vista(RC1), and the
account that you make @ installation should be the admin account
right? wrong, you can view all the processes in teh task manager, u
cant login in Safe Mode, but strangely i could make a new account,
an admin account and from that I could do everything, was quite
weird actually, and this happedned on teh x86 PreRC1 release too,
so dont know if this is an isolated problem or just my fault but it
happened twice so just thought id post.
--
----------------------------------------------
Posted with NewsLeecher v3.5 Beta 3
* Binary Usenet Leeching Made Easy
* http://www.newsleecher.com/?usenet
----------------------------------------------


  #3 (permalink)  
Old September 9th 06, 05:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
_Mark
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 5
Default Admin Accounts

My problem is accessing the Documents and Settings Folder under the C:
drive. Needless to say it says I need admin rights. Any way to access
this...

wrote in message
...
Well lets just say that vista is getting annoying in this regard,
presently i am testing the x64 version of Vista(RC1), and the
account that you make @ installation should be the admin account
right? wrong, you can view all the processes in teh task manager, u
cant login in Safe Mode, but strangely i could make a new account,
an admin account and from that I could do everything, was quite
weird actually, and this happedned on teh x86 PreRC1 release too,
so dont know if this is an isolated problem or just my fault but it
happened twice so just thought id post.
--
----------------------------------------------
Posted with NewsLeecher v3.5 Beta 3
* Binary Usenet Leeching Made Easy
* http://www.newsleecher.com/?usenet
----------------------------------------------


  #4 (permalink)  
Old September 10th 06, 09:50 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
Jimmy Brush
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 827
Default Admin Accounts

Hello,

Documents and Settings has been removed from Windows Vista. What used to be
the Documents and Settings folder is now the Users folder.

What you are seeing that says "Documents and Settings" is actually an
application-compatability mechanism built into Vista to allow older programs
to still work when accessing the old folder structure that Windows XP used.


--
- JB

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

  #5 (permalink)  
Old September 14th 06, 12:26 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords
Dippy
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 5
Default Admin Accounts

The simple fact over here is that the moment a machine is joined to the
domain, your Administrator(default) accounts gets locked out. So any user has
to create a new Administrator Account before joining the machine to the
domain.....

Dippy
Vista Enthusiast


"Montreal MCT" wrote:

Hey there Jerry,

Actually you are half right: The account you create on installation IS an
admin account. However Microsoft has built in a lot of safeguards, such as
every time you try to perform an administrative task it wants you to confirm
it. As well it runs some programs in a reduced rights mode for security. If
you want to runt them in full admin mode you have to right-click on them and
click 'Run as Administrator'.

I hope this helps clear things up for you!

M
--
MDG, MCT
MCSA (2003), MCSA (2000), MCDST.
Certified Small Business Specialist
Visit my blog at http://www.mitpro.ca/Blogs/tabid/59/...2/Default.aspx


" wrote:

Well lets just say that vista is getting annoying in this regard,
presently i am testing the x64 version of Vista(RC1), and the
account that you make @ installation should be the admin account
right? wrong, you can view all the processes in teh task manager, u
cant login in Safe Mode, but strangely i could make a new account,
an admin account and from that I could do everything, was quite
weird actually, and this happedned on teh x86 PreRC1 release too,
so dont know if this is an isolated problem or just my fault but it
happened twice so just thought id post.
--
----------------------------------------------
Posted with NewsLeecher v3.5 Beta 3
* Binary Usenet Leeching Made Easy
* http://www.newsleecher.com/?usenet
----------------------------------------------


 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT. The time now is 05:23 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.0.0 RC6
Copyright ©2004-2024 Vista Banter.
The comments are property of their posters.