Vista Tip - Installing Program As Administrator

June 8th, 2007 · No Comments

I mentioned that I would share some tips as I discovered them from my recent migration from Windows XP to Vista. When I was trying to install some of my favorite utilities, I was noticing some of them not working correctly. I scoured the internet regarding this and came up with a solution. Normally in Windows XP I would simply double click a program to install it, but due to the added security features in Vista doing this can result in the lower privileges of the default account type causing problems. Fortunately, the solution is very simple. All you need to do is “right click” on what you want to install, and select “Run as administrator”. This will elevate the privileges of the install and so far has allowed everything to install fine. This was necessary to get my Belkin UPS software to work correctly.

Vista Install As Administrator

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