I installed a retail box version of Home Premium. I entered my name in the User Account to become an administrator. The problem was that my name is spelled WRONG. I created a new administrator account, and deleted the old one. In Windows User Account Control, an Admin Approval Mode token is granted once to the first Administrator Account, then all subsequent accounts are Normal User Mode, even if made an Administrator (UAC still prompts and assumes Normal access policy.) Furthermore, Home versions of Windows Vista (Home Premium and Home Basic) cannot use System Policy Editor: even if I installed Ultimate, took the file and slapped it in, Windows would refuse to run it. (Like XP Professional MMC snap ins copied and taken to XP Home, for example.) I don't like User Account Control, so I shut it off. I fix people's PC's for a living, I fix my own, and I don't like the assumption from Microsoft that I need to answer Yes to all these applications I run 3,000 times because they didn't have the sense to force programs "Designed for Windows XP" to smartly use the account structure they at Microsoft themselves SET UP. (Admin access required to run Adobe Acrobat + UAC prompt = Not Adobe's fault that Microsoft didn't push the issue when they got their approval to bear the Designed for Windows logo, even for XP.) I refuse to turn it on. Here's the rub: all of my system folders are now read-only, since I don't have the Admin Approval Mode token on my account. If UAC is turned off, system-critical folders are set permanently to read only until UAC is turned on. IS THERE A WAY TO GRANT THIS MODE TO MY ACCOUNT so I can install programs again on my own PC? If I have to reinstall Windows (for the fifth time: I wonder how the people at Microsoft Activation isn't calling the FBI on me at this point) again, I'm going to be very upset. And if all anyone has to say is "Stop complaining and use UAC" on this issue, there is no wonder why people are sticking with Windows XP: they learned to use it safely and don't want to reinvent the wheel.

Sorry But if you fix computer for a living, I guess then your customers should stayat XP and never upgrade. Or maybe they will find a dealer who WILL learn new technology. You as a dealer can go to lots oftraining by Microsoft, at little or no cost. www.microsoft.com/partneryou could also go to msusapartnerreadyness.com and learn what and why the change occurred and how to CONFIGURE UAC's you can leave UAC's on and turn off the prompts. You would learn that UAC'sprocess change lots of things like Protection or programs files folder, registry. The other thing UACs do is only the process that requested elevation is running as admin not the whole desktop. If you are in the BUSSINESS of fixing computer for living. Then I would think you want to learn new New Hardware Software And keep onto of the changes to get and keep new customers (or you could be like a friend of mine who whole has business totally based on OS/2 support and did not want to lean new technology) PS he out of business now