Yeh, UAP can restrict programs installing unless you are the administrator.
Also, if you have UAP enabled and you want to create a new folder in
%programfiles% for a new program group, this might be restricted also. So
yeh, UAP in general tightens things down so that the user cannot make system
wide changes which would then affect other users.
Check out this article, explains it better -
http://www.zacknet.co.uk/vistabase/w...rity/whatisuap
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--- Original message follows ---
"Tekguru (Daron Brewood)" <> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:39:32 -0000, Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor) wrote:
>
>> Yeh, the more feedback you can give about UAP, the better MSFT will end
>> up
>> making it... because at the moment, I don't know of a single person who
>> keeps it on all the time ;o) Hehe.
>
> Zack, can this affect things like program install, as a lot of progs I'm
> trying to install end up creating directories and that is about all.
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