Hi, I just bought a laptop a few days ago that has Vista home premium on it. As a lot of you I suppose, I turned off UAC, but I still have some icons on the desktop that has some shields as you will see in the following screenshot. I have had some help to get rid of them, but it didn't work. I can work with it, it doesn't matter, but it's just for the way it looks. Also, since I turned off UAC, I have that little red shield with the X in it telling me to reactivate it each time I start the computer. Is there a way to stop it from doing that?

 

 

 

 

 

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Second thing, I tryed to install my printer, but I don't know how to since it says I need to run on administrative account, and the thing is, it's the only account I can go in while on regular Windows, means it's the admin account. Could someone help me with that?

 

 

 

Thank you in advance for those that can help me :)

The little shield is "Run as administrator" and I'm pretty sure that you can right click and change it so can you run it normally or as the administrator.

To get rid of that annoying thing for UAC, as well as hide the other icons that you don't want to see, just right click on the task bar->properties->notification->customize. That will show you a list of everything in the task bar, and you just choose hide for the behavior for the ones that you don't want to see.

Here is a guide on how to enable/disable the UAC.

To get rid of that annoying thing for UAC, as well as hide the other icons that you don't want to see, just right click on the task bar->properties->notification->customize. That will show you a list of everything in the task bar, and you just choose hide for the behavior for the ones that you don't want to see.

 

Thanks, that got rid of the red shield.

 

 

 

As for sloter, I already disabled UAC ;).

Second thing, I tried to install my printer, but I don't know how to since it says I need to run on administrative account, and the thing is, it's the only account I can go in while on regular Windows, means it's the admin account. Could someone help me with that?

 

 

 

Thank you in advance for those that can help me :)

 

 

 

Although you should not have to you can enable vistas hidden administrator account

 

Right click on command prompt and run as administrator

 

Type

net user administrator /active:yes

 

Log out then install your printer.

 

 

 

When you are finished disable the account for security

 

net user administrator /active:no

 

 

 

I am sure there are easier ways to do this but that is how I did it.

This might sound stupid but simple did you restart your computer after setting the UAC to disabled?

This might sound stupid but simple did you restart your computer after setting the UAC to disabled?

 

 

 

Another stupid question: Did you disable UAC from the control panel?

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This might sound stupid but simple did you restart your computer after setting the UAC to disabled?

 

 

 

Another stupid question: Did you disable UAC from the control panel?

 

 

 

Yes to both questions.

I did what you said VARN, and only on the hidden admin account did it tell me that Vista was not in the supported OS's for the CD...

 

 

 

Actually came back to the regular account and I downloaded the Vista driver and it worked, the printer is installed.

 

 

 

As for the shields, I don't really mind having them there :).

could someone please answer the shield question, as it will help me, because I don't want to have to disable the UAC yet can't stand the fact I have to click Allow every time I open the program -.- (I didn't want to start a new thread, and I hope I am not thread hi-jacking :oops: )

To my little knowledge about Vista, the only way is to disable UAC.

 

Gah.. Give me 2009 or 10 for Windows 7! =)

 

Gah.. Give me 2009 or 10 for Windows 7! =)

 

Yeah, can't wait till Vienna get's out. I want to see what it is :P.

 

Yeah, can't wait till Vienna get's out. I want to see what it is :P.

 

It's chocolate ice cream isn't it?

 

:D

 

Yeah, can't wait till Vienna get's out. I want to see what it is :P.

 

It's chocolate ice cream isn't it?

 

:D

 

 

 

Who knows, i'd prefer if it was a good ale =)

 

 

 

If i may hijack the thread further, there's some news about another OS from Microsoft - http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article. ... leID=32627