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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

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 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 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.