User's files and admin.

Greetings all,

well I finally managed to get a proper download of Vista and I've
successfully installed it.

I'm liking it so far but I do have two issues I'd like to sort out:

What exactly is the point of all the pop-up warnings telling me I need admin
priviledges to install something, etc. when I'm logged on as me with my admin
account? I finally had to just switch that off but I did read someone saying
somewhere that we just need to run explorer as an admin. I thought I was
just by logging in with my admin account.

Secondly, I've always always always moved the "My documents" folder to my D
(data) drive. I refuse to store my data on the C drive and cannot believe MS
would restrict us into doing so with Vista. Everyone knows these days to
store data on another partition in case of severe computer crash. How then
do I move this new "User's files" to my D drive please?

Thanks in advance to any who can help.

Well I can answer my first question myself and anybody else wondering. This
is from the built in help:

Change the behavior of the prompt for consent
Use the following procedure to change the elevation prompt behavior for UAC.

Note:
To perform the following procedure, you must be logged into a client
computer as a local administrator.

To change the elevation prompt behavior
Click Start, click Accessories, click All Programs, click Run, type
secpol.msc in the Open text box, and then click OK.

If UAC is currently configured to prompt for consent, the Windows Security
dialog box will appear. Click Allow.

From the Local Security Settings console tree, click Local Policies, and
then Security Options.

Scroll down to and double-click User Account Control: Behavior of the
elevation prompt for administrators or User Account Control: Behavior of the
elevation prompt for standard users.

From the drop-down menu, select one of the following settings:

No prompt

Prompt for credentials (this setting requires user name and password input
before an application or task will run as elevated)

Prompt for consent (this is the default setting for administrators only,
this setting is available for administrators only)


"Ian M. Walker" wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> well I finally managed to get a proper download of Vista and I've
> successfully installed it.
>
> I'm liking it so far but I do have two issues I'd like to sort out:
>
> What exactly is the point of all the pop-up warnings telling me I need admin
> priviledges to install something, etc. when I'm logged on as me with my admin
> account? I finally had to just switch that off but I did read someone saying
> somewhere that we just need to run explorer as an admin. I thought I was
> just by logging in with my admin account.
>
> Secondly, I've always always always moved the "My documents" folder to my D
> (data) drive. I refuse to store my data on the C drive and cannot believe MS
> would restrict us into doing so with Vista. Everyone knows these days to
> store data on another partition in case of severe computer crash. How then
> do I move this new "User's files" to my D drive please?
>
> Thanks in advance to any who can help.
>

Try disabling UAC and see if it helps you do all those Administrative task:
Start > All Programs > Run > type in MSCONFIG > Tools (tab) > scroll down
select Disable UAC > click Launch, restart your system for the changes to
take effect.
--
--
Andre
Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com
Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta


"Ian M. Walker" <> wrote in message
news:01FB238E-3CF9-402C-81E7-...
> Greetings all,
>
> well I finally managed to get a proper download of Vista and I've
> successfully installed it.
>
> I'm liking it so far but I do have two issues I'd like to sort out:
>
> What exactly is the point of all the pop-up warnings telling me I need
> admin
> priviledges to install something, etc. when I'm logged on as me with my
> admin
> account? I finally had to just switch that off but I did read someone
> saying
> somewhere that we just need to run explorer as an admin. I thought I was
> just by logging in with my admin account.
>
> Secondly, I've always always always moved the "My documents" folder to my
> D
> (data) drive. I refuse to store my data on the C drive and cannot believe
> MS
> would restrict us into doing so with Vista. Everyone knows these days to
> store data on another partition in case of severe computer crash. How
> then
> do I move this new "User's files" to my D drive please?
>
> Thanks in advance to any who can help.
>

Andre, I appreciate the gesture but perhaps you missed my second post where I
said I answered that first question.

Mind you, I'm finding that after a reboot the local policy change has not
"stuck" so I have to do it again.

I still need to know how to move the User's data to another partition
though.



"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

> Try disabling UAC and see if it helps you do all those Administrative task:
> Start > All Programs > Run > type in MSCONFIG > Tools (tab) > scroll down
> select Disable UAC > click Launch, restart your system for the changes to
> take effect.
> --
> --
> Andre
> Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>
>
> "Ian M. Walker" <> wrote in message
> news:01FB238E-3CF9-402C-81E7-...
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > well I finally managed to get a proper download of Vista and I've
> > successfully installed it.
> >
> > I'm liking it so far but I do have two issues I'd like to sort out:
> >
> > What exactly is the point of all the pop-up warnings telling me I need
> > admin
> > priviledges to install something, etc. when I'm logged on as me with my
> > admin
> > account? I finally had to just switch that off but I did read someone
> > saying
> > somewhere that we just need to run explorer as an admin. I thought I was
> > just by logging in with my admin account.
> >
> > Secondly, I've always always always moved the "My documents" folder to my
> > D
> > (data) drive. I refuse to store my data on the C drive and cannot believe
> > MS
> > would restrict us into doing so with Vista. Everyone knows these days to
> > store data on another partition in case of severe computer crash. How
> > then
> > do I move this new "User's files" to my D drive please?
> >
> > Thanks in advance to any who can help.
> >
>
>
>

It seems I'm answering all of my own questions. heh. Just in case it helps
others:

I discovered that if you go into the User's folder and right click the
individual folders, under the locate tab we have the "move" option which lets
us move the folders wherever we want them again. Yay.

I hope that helps someone.


"Ian M. Walker" wrote:

> Andre, I appreciate the gesture but perhaps you missed my second post where I
> said I answered that first question.
>
> Mind you, I'm finding that after a reboot the local policy change has not
> "stuck" so I have to do it again.
>
> I still need to know how to move the User's data to another partition
> though.
>
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
>
> > Try disabling UAC and see if it helps you do all those Administrative task:
> > Start > All Programs > Run > type in MSCONFIG > Tools (tab) > scroll down
> > select Disable UAC > click Launch, restart your system for the changes to
> > take effect.
> > --
> > --
> > Andre
> > Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com
> > Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> > Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> > http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
> >
> >
> > "Ian M. Walker" <> wrote in message
> > news:01FB238E-3CF9-402C-81E7-...
> > > Greetings all,
> > >
> > > well I finally managed to get a proper download of Vista and I've
> > > successfully installed it.
> > >
> > > I'm liking it so far but I do have two issues I'd like to sort out:
> > >
> > > What exactly is the point of all the pop-up warnings telling me I need
> > > admin
> > > priviledges to install something, etc. when I'm logged on as me with my
> > > admin
> > > account? I finally had to just switch that off but I did read someone
> > > saying
> > > somewhere that we just need to run explorer as an admin. I thought I was
> > > just by logging in with my admin account.
> > >
> > > Secondly, I've always always always moved the "My documents" folder to my
> > > D
> > > (data) drive. I refuse to store my data on the C drive and cannot believe
> > > MS
> > > would restrict us into doing so with Vista. Everyone knows these days to
> > > store data on another partition in case of severe computer crash. How
> > > then
> > > do I move this new "User's files" to my D drive please?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance to any who can help.
> > >
> >
> >
> >