Now this was one of those stupid things that Microsoft decided to add to their new OS, Vista. The UAC, or User Account Control. Man, what crap…. makes my job as a technician more annoying now.
I worked on a laptop with Vista Business installed. After introducing the pc to the windows domain, I proceeded to add the Domain Admins network group to the local Administrators group of the laptop. Nice!
After which, I noticed I could not access the windows updates through Internet Explorer. I did not have permissions. What!!??!?? I just added it… ok.
Then I noticed that Internet Explorer 7 would always start at the Runounce screen where I have to choose my default search engine. Ahhhhhhhhh!!
So what is the issue….. UAC!!!
This can actually be an easy one.
This is how I was able to fix and there are other solutions!
1. I was able to turn UAC off.
2. Go to start and type msconfig and hit enter.
3. Select tools from the above tabs and select ‘disable UAC’ and reboot.
That was it… man, I hate this!
July 30th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Ugh. I agree. Even though I use Vista, it does have a lot of problems, which are getting annoying to keep dealing with.