Vista Home Premium - Permissions

Posted: 09-28-2007, 04:36 PM
I'm the Sys Admin at a small company. One of our employees is going on
maternity leave and will be doing some work from home. Her home computer has
Vista Home Premium. I'm trying to install an app we have here that, when it
activates its license, drops a license file into the Windows directory. It
won't work without it. It's not part of the normal install. It askes for
the activation code on first use of the app.

How can I manually disable UAC or change permissions on the Windows
directory so that this app can place its file in the Windows directory?

Thanks,
Bill
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Posted: 09-28-2007, 05:15 PM

Bill Paine;465893 Wrote:
> I'm the Sys Admin at a small company. One of our employees is going on
> maternity leave and will be doing some work from home. Her home
> computer has
> Vista Home Premium. I'm trying to install an app we have here that,
> when it
> activates its license, drops a license file into the Windows directory.
> It
> won't work without it. It's not part of the normal install. It askes
> for
> the activation code on first use of the app.
>
> How can I manually disable UAC or change permissions on the Windows
> directory so that this app can place its file in the Windows directory?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
Hi Bill,

This tutorial will show you how to turn off UAC.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/48...ntrol-uac.html


This tutorial will show you how to take ownership of the "Windows"
folder and subfolders (subcontainers and objects) if needed. Look at
method two.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...ship-file.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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RE: Vista Home Premium - Permissions
Posted: 09-28-2007, 06:28 PM
Disabling UAC is generally not a good idea. Doing so causes "Access Denied"
errors in places like the desktop, and My Documents preventing the user form
copying files/folders to those places. In order for this program to run
correctly, you should set it's compatibility to automatically run as
Administrator every time it runs. This will give it access to the Windows
directory allowing it to place files where they should go. Another note...
Make sure that this program is installed, and run from within an admin
account, and not a standard account! If you run do this from within a
standard account, you may not have access to all the files you need.

"Bill Paine" wrote:
> I'm the Sys Admin at a small company. One of our employees is going on
> maternity leave and will be doing some work from home. Her home computer has
> Vista Home Premium. I'm trying to install an app we have here that, when it
> activates its license, drops a license file into the Windows directory. It
> won't work without it. It's not part of the normal install. It askes for
> the activation code on first use of the app.
>
> How can I manually disable UAC or change permissions on the Windows
> directory so that this app can place its file in the Windows directory?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
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