[access-uk] Re: User Account Control in Vista

  • From: Douglas Harrison <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:18:13 -0000

Yes, Chris - that is what I would have expected.  But I have not changed it 
myself - perhaps 
the supplier did so after getting it from Toshiba with Vista pre-installed.

Douglas
On 20 Dec 2008 at 17:21, Chris Hallsworth wrote:

> Actually, User Account Control is enabled by default, and so it should.
> 
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> Chris Hallsworth
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 5:05 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] User Account Control in Vista
> 
> 
> > On my Vista laptop I recently tried to install some demo software (Hal
> > 10) but there was apparently a crash and the process only partly
> > completed.    I cannot uninstall because it says that the software in
> > question was not properly installed.   Dolphin Product Support suspect
> > that the only solution may be to try and install again over the top of
> > what is there already and then attempt an uninstall.
> >
> > But what happened has done something odd to my machine and I cannot
> > entirely understand what is happening.  I am the only user and do not
> > have to log on etc.  Hal 9 should load at start up but I tend to get
> > strange error messages such as "Hal has not bbeen installed under this
> > user profile" and "Another user is already running a copy of Hal" I can
> > cancel these dialogues and load Hal 9 manually, but who is the other
> > user?
> >
> > I have read a lot about problems in Vista with User Account Control, but
> > if I understand the dialogue in Control Panel this feature is turned off
> > by default on this system anyway.
> >
> > Any ideas as to what is going on would be much appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> >
> 

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Douglas Harrison

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