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Vlsta settings??

Feb 6, 2007 10:51PM PST

HP Pavilion a1748x
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+
Windows Vista Home Premium

This is a new one week old system hat came loaded with Windows Vista... so I am stuck with trying to learn it. Beginning yesterday I started receiving excessive darkened screen with popup heading "User Account" and message "Program needs your permission to continue. If you started this program continue."

The popup messages occur in starting certain programs such as: Spybot Search & Destroy and others... this only started yesterday asking for permission when starting programs and Spybot worked perfectly until then. Also to uninstall certain programs requires the same permissions. Vista is really confusing and I cannot find how to change settings to prevent this constant nuisance. I feel it may be related to settings in the Control Panel>Security Center> At the bottom of Windows Security Center is "Other security settings". When the check is ticked and extended there is a section entitled "User Account Control" which indicates it is "On" and with a green dot. I am unable to turn it off as a test... mouse click does nothing.

Would appreciate comments from anyone having experience with this operating system and suggestions for solving the issue.

Glenn

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This TechNet article should help...
Feb 7, 2007 12:40AM PST
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(NT) Thanks for the link... hope I can understand it! :))
Feb 7, 2007 1:50AM PST
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User accounts
Feb 7, 2007 12:11PM PST

If you want to turn that off.
Go to control panel, user accounts, the bottem of the drop down says turn off user accounts. Click that and when the next menu comes up, uncheck the box, click yes and it will ask you to restart. Click yes and when it reboots those annoying popups will be gone.
Wayne

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Thanks... that did the trick :)))
Feb 8, 2007 12:09AM PST

Although it may not the best thing to do... right now until Vista is more familiar this gets rid of the annoyances. In the meantime I am able to devote time to solving other Vista problems. Grin

I still have a small multi-colored shields that are super imposed on some desktop icons. Not sure what these mean or how to get rid of them. This didn't happen right away but suddenly appeared after some days.

Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. I have followed some of your other posts with interest.

Glenn