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Win 7 virtual store question (with Access 2003)
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Re: Win 7 virtual store question (with Access 2003) -
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I must have been having a bunch of problems not running things with an Administrator account. I can't remember. |
run with only user-level permissions (I'm looking at you
Intuit/QuickBooks). The people designing that software who required
admin-level permissions to run were making a mistake, just as you
were if, for instance, you put your Access front ends in the
programs folder.
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I do not want to change all my settings now. Too late for that. |
you do that, you're losing one of the major benefits of Vista/Win7.
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PW <emailaddyinsig (AT) ifIremember (DOT) com> wrote in news:2c67p6pkbdi0jt081k9mas90ebj4iutg37 (AT) 4ax (DOT) com: I must have been having a bunch of problems not running things with an Administrator account. I can't remember. But the problem there is software that isn't properly designed to run with only user-level permissions (I'm looking at you Intuit/QuickBooks). The people designing that software who required admin-level permissions to run were making a mistake, just as you were if, for instance, you put your Access front ends in the programs folder. I do not want to change all my settings now. Too late for that. Vista/Win7 no longer give you a choice, unless you turn off UAC. If you do that, you're losing one of the major benefits of Vista/Win7. |
It's just me and my PC. Just maybe, maybe, to make you guys happy I
will think about changing my account type from administrator :-)
Thanks David.
-paul
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On 1 Apr 2011 19:52:03 GMT, "David-W-Fenton" NoEmail (AT) SeeSignature (DOT) invalid> wrote: Vista/Win7 no longer give you a choice, unless you turn off UAC. If you do that, you're losing one of the major benefits of Vista/Win7. It's just me and my PC. Just maybe, maybe, to make you guys happy I will think about changing my account type from administrator :-) |
have UAC turned on. On the other hand, if you've got UAC turned off,
yes, you need to set up a separate admin account and run with a
user-level logon.
But one of the beauties of UAC is that it obviates the need for two
accounts on a single-user PC.
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David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
contact via website only http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
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PW <emailaddyinsig (AT) ifIremember (DOT) com> wrote in news:7eoep6l79eutml073a4aubvrdc9954rg0u (AT) 4ax (DOT) com: On 1 Apr 2011 19:52:03 GMT, "David-W-Fenton" NoEmail (AT) SeeSignature (DOT) invalid> wrote: Vista/Win7 no longer give you a choice, unless you turn off UAC. If you do that, you're losing one of the major benefits of Vista/Win7. It's just me and my PC. Just maybe, maybe, to make you guys happy I will think about changing my account type from administrator :-) With Vista/Win7, don't! You don't gain anything from doing so if you have UAC turned on. On the other hand, if you've got UAC turned off, yes, you need to set up a separate admin account and run with a user-level logon. But one of the beauties of UAC is that it obviates the need for two accounts on a single-user PC. |
Okay David. I will leave my Win7 PC account as an administrator :-)
And leave Admin Approval mode on.
Thanks again!
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If we could get an on-line reservation system where we could export and import availability etc into an Access database that may work. |
inexpensive as in a few tens of dollars per month. I don't know the
name or more details.
A future version of the Auto FE Updater will allow for updating of the
FE database and related files from a web server.
Now with SQL Server a VPN is strongly suggested to be used.
Presumably the SQL Server provider supplies such but I don't know
that.
Thus, in a while, there may be a complete solution available.
Tony
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Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files
updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
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I do not want to change all my settings now. Too late for that. |
standards. And they will be a lot easier to work with in the future.
Tony
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Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files
updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
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It's just me and my PC. Just maybe, maybe, to make you guys happy I will think about changing my account type from administrator :-) |
problem. <smile> I've been bit a few times.
For example way back when about 8 or 9 years ago I needed a registry
reading API call in the Auto FE Updater so I grabbed one I found. A
year or two later I got an email indicating there was a problem. I
couldn't repro it on my end and further digging was required.
Turns out the API code I had grabbed was out of date and was passing a
default parm which which to open the registry key for read/write.
Which was a problem for regular users. As it was I only needed to
read the registry key. And as I was running as admin I never
encountered the problem.
Tony
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Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files
updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
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If we could get an on-line reservation system where we could export and import availability etc into an Access database that may work. Albert Kallal has found a SQL Server hosted provider which is quite inexpensive as in a few tens of dollars per month. I don't know the name or more details. |
inexpensive SQL Server databases. He's not actually using any of the
web hosting. Just the SQL Server stuff.
Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files
updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/
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On 3 Apr 2011 15:33:05 GMT, "David-W-Fenton" NoEmail (AT) SeeSignature (DOT) invalid> wrote: PW <emailaddyinsig (AT) ifIremember (DOT) com> wrote in news:7eoep6l79eutml073a4aubvrdc9954rg0u (AT) 4ax (DOT) com: On 1 Apr 2011 19:52:03 GMT, "David-W-Fenton" NoEmail (AT) SeeSignature (DOT) invalid> wrote: Vista/Win7 no longer give you a choice, unless you turn off UAC. If you do that, you're losing one of the major benefits of Vista/Win7. It's just me and my PC. Just maybe, maybe, to make you guys happy I will think about changing my account type from administrator :-) With Vista/Win7, don't! You don't gain anything from doing so if you have UAC turned on. On the other hand, if you've got UAC turned off, yes, you need to set up a separate admin account and run with a user-level logon. But one of the beauties of UAC is that it obviates the need for two accounts on a single-user PC. Okay David. I will leave my Win7 PC account as an administrator :-) And leave Admin Approval mode on. |
configuration, which is very well-designed (compared to Vista UAC,
which was way too noisy).
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David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
contact via website only http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
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