I am not entirely sure if Power User's the right word (Didn't have much computer knowledge when my computer had Xp), but basically I want my mum (standard user account) to be able to do things Vista wants Administrators to do, just basic things like keep Firefox up to date (I didn't run Firefox for a month and Vista wouldn't let her update it, it wanted Admin rights..) [B]all she needs to be able to do is install and update programs without being an admin[/B], I don't want to make her a full Admin, because I don't really want her able to snoop through my Documents folder and such when I'm not home.
This is a guess, as I'm on windows 2008 r2 (equiv to win 7), but here you can right click on a shortcut, go to the compatibility settings and click run as administrator.
Now this isn't ideal, as everytime you run the app it's running with admin access which is obviously an issue in regards to virii and the like, plus this would run firefox as if it was run by the admin user in terms of the profile, i.e. her bookmarks and stuff may or may not be there (haven't tested, just assuming).
I have a similar issue, my wife gets uac prompts when she sometimes runs spotify and it requires an update and I'm ultra paranoid about running anything as admin access without me being there and knowing wtf is going on.
It'll be interesting if anyone turns up a real solution to this.
Good luck op!
[QUOTE]run firefox as if it was run by the admin user in terms of the profile, i.e. her bookmarks and stuff may or may not be there (haven't tested, just assuming).[/QUOTE]
Yeah, with our set up I can't really get onto her account to check this, (she'd want to be right there, and I'll explain why I don't want that now) I have a lot of bookmarks, plenty of them stuff she is highly unlikely to approve, and would probably result in her getting an annoying internet filter... (We've had one before... it took me maybe a month to get around the stupid thing)
That was maybe 4 years ago though.
You could use the runas /env switch, will as I understand it, launches the application with admin rights (assuming you ran it with the admin account credentials) and keeps the current user session in regards to profile.
I do not know if this works, but you could test it quite easily yourself with a new user account and a bunch of random bookmarks.
Where exactly would I put that?
After the shortcut thing?
like where you put -windowed and such?
A little bit more reading suggests my solution won't work, the runas command won't allow you to pass it a password (which I'm assuming your mum wouldn't see if it were in the shortcut properties), I also got the switch wrong, it's /profile and not /env, but I guess that's a moot point:
[url]http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490994.aspx[/url]
Sorry op, back to the drawing board on this one :smith:
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