Admin authorization required when I AM the admin. Help? Joel Goetz <Joel.Goetz.39ad65f[ at ]vistabanter.com> 12/26/2008 5:13:46 PM I just got my new computer yesterday (complete with Vista, which I have no experience with) and at one point I was downloading some zip files that were to be extracted into folders specified by myself; I did this all the time on my old computer. But when I try to do it now, an error message comes up telling me that that action requires an administrative authorization..........but there's only one user account and I am the administrator. It also gave no prompt for me to accept it; it just denied its use. I read that there's some new security feature with Vista called UAC (I believe?) that treats every user as a standard user, and that ever .exe file is supposed to have some authorization thing with it..........I don't know much about computers and I JUST wanna be able to turn this off or know how to deal with it. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. -- Joel Goetz

Re: Admin authorization required when I AM the admin. Help? The Max <max.imus[ at ]geemail.com> 12/26/2008 11:16:19 PM On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:13:46 +0000, Joel Goetz <Joel.Goetz.39ad65f[ at ]vistabanter.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I read that there's some new security feature with Vista called UAC (I >believe?) that treats every user as a standard user, and that ever .exe >file is supposed to have some authorization thing with it..........I >don't know much about computers and I JUST wanna be able to turn this >off or know how to deal with it. Any help is GREATLY appreciated. Control Panel (Classic Mode) User Accounts The option to turn it off is on that page. Max