The Ultimate Vista Workaround...

So inlight of me getting all of my programs to either run or run more efficiently do to this wonderful workaround I found I decided to share it.

I was unable to run many smaller or even some large third party software. Due to Vista's restrictive and agressive security policies many of these programs simply don't run or give error messages because as a "Computer Administrator" type user you are still not entitled to full access and privilages provided to a full administrator. The ultimate workaround...just run all programs as an administrator. Find the executable file and open its properties dialog, go to the compatibility tab and check the box "Run program as administrator". All programs will work and better. I did it for uTorrent and had tremendous speed increases in upload and download speeds. I do it for games and actually get slightly improved performance. Games are a little more complicated though. I do it for many small third part applications and they run.

I know it may be daunting to do this for every exectuable, but there is a way which you can easily manipulate the security policies and privilages of the user to do this for all programs. It been mentioned like a thousand times on all over the web so I won't bother here.

So the next time a program refuses to run or will not run efficiently do this work around.

Stupid Vista...

 

If you just turn off UAC, you get the same effect. It's inane to go through your whole system and do something like this.

 

hahaha... maybe you should check yourself before making these kinds of statements.

i'll fix it for you...

 

Well, why not just go ahead and turn off your firewall, uninstall your AntiVirus and Anti Spyware apps too. Thes make just as much sense as your suggestion.

It most assuredly CAN be a good idea to set SPECIFIC apps to run as administrator, but suggesting it to be done to ALL executables is dangerous at best.

Gary

 

Actually, i went to go and try this just to see what would happen and turned out i was already running under SYSTEM privileges for uttorent so i decided to leave it that way because i wouldn't want to go a rank lower.

 

Running your program as an administrator is different. I run all my programs with System Privilages but they still refused to work in some instances, it offers much more flexibility.

Umm...ya. This idea of providing the user much less flexibility was introduced in Vista. All your programs run with full privilages in XP and from my experience that never seemed to harm my computer. You are being a little bit over dramatic suggesting that running all exectuables as an administrator is as dangerous as not having a firewall...gees.

Ya...trust me I know more than enough about Vista. Are you really trying to convince me that this "great" OS is as intuitive as a Linux System. Man Linux systems offer so much freeking flexibility and are more secure because they have had this built in security feature Microsoft introduced now, well before Microsoft released Windows 3.1.

I know. I said there is a way to accomplish what I mentioned above and it has been mentioned all over the web so many times, I'm not going to bother mentioning it.

 

And no protection.

Much less flexiblity? What are you talking about? What does this have to do with flexiblity? Folks b*i*t*c*h*ed and moaned at Microsoft for years that it allowed all apps to run with elevated privledges. They saw the light and changed it and now folks like you are moaning again. Think what you want, but do NOT try to convince novice users here that it is perfectly safe to run all your apps with admin rights. it is NOT safe. It is less safe than running without a firewall.

You may THINK you know enough about Vista, but with the suggestion that it is safe to run ALL applications with admin priviledges calls that into question. Now this talk of Linux makes this whole argument ridiculous. You do realize that Linux does not allow all apps to run with admin privledges don't you?

Good, because it is not a good idea either.

Gary