I have been running win7 x64 for a month. I am coming from a winxp
environment so I am not familiar with the changes introduced by vista.
When installing software if I right click on the .exe, I am presented with
the option to Run as administrator. Or I can just double click the .exe
file. Is there any rule of thumb as to when I should use the Run as
administrator method? Can someone point me to some documentation
that explains the difference?
Thanks
To run as administrator you must either be in an administrors' user account or give an administrators ID. This is for your protection. Any change that will affect the entire OS and not just your indivual user's account must be done by an administrator. If you give a users account to someone else (not an administrator account) that person cannot do anything that can cause you problems such as download programs etc. Hope this helps.
I just checked and my account is an admin account - I am the only user on the system. Based on your response, I shouldn't need to use the Run as administrator right click option
Thanks
I am including some details about my system.
intel duo core, 4 GB ram, 120 GB sata drive (from a laptop) for testing win7.
1.5 TB seagate for everything except the OS. ATI Radeon HD 4350 with
9-11_vista64_win7_64_dd.exe driver. SBLive OEM with kxproject driver
kxdrv3550-x64-full.exe. Planning on finding and testing a driver for the
onboard intel audio.
160 GB WD drive with winxp, fc11 which will be updated to win7 and fc12
once the win7 testing is completed.
64 bit applications installed and being tested:
firefox 3.5.5 shiretoko, vim7, python 3.1, 7zip, virtualdub
32 bit applications installed and being tested:
garmin mapsource, city navigator north america, alien arena, ekiga (voip),
mcabber (im), mutt, Fugawi (marine charts), abiword, foxit, foobar2000,
qsynth, mplayer
Comments:
garmin mapsource - some problems with zoom and scrolling topo maps from gpsfiledepot
vim7 Edit with vim - right mouse click registry tweak added manually