I finally found why the 'Run as Administrator' is not enabled. When an installed icon is not referred to.exe it won't be available. On top of this InstalShield 2013. Many utilities need to be run as administrator in order to function properly, especially older utilities that haven’t been updated to support Windows 7 or Vista yet. Many utilities need to be run as administrator in order to function properly, especially older utilities that haven’t been updated to support Windows 7 or Vista yet. Sep 17, 2012 I've had UAC turned off on our Vista systems. UAC and Run As Adminstrator. You can just right click on the tool and select “Run as administrator.

Okay, I want to run a program with the credentials for another local user account on my computer. Drivers Wolfdale1333-d667 Windows 7. Simple, right? 'runas /user:computer user '[app.exe]' and we should be good.

I get 'RUNAS ERROR: Unable to run - [. Crystalfontz Cfax12864. ] 1327 Logon failure: user account restriction.' Argh #1 Fine. I'll try the GUI way.

Right click the icon and select Run as. It's not there. Oh yeah, shift clicking it should work. Still not there. Just the ubiquitous 'Run as Administrator' option.

Argh #2 Does this imply that Vista does not support changing to a different user's credentials? I've seen one interesting thread on this topic ( /communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.security&tid=8170dd80-9339-4d93-8316-a7328f359c9e&p=1 ) where a few folks hacked together some scripts that use the ShellExecute API to get the same thing done. Do I really have to use a script hack to change user context? Argh #3 Anyone have this same experience?

Hello all, One of the first items I did when I install Vista yesterday was to re-enable the Administrator account and gave it a strong password then changed the account created during the Vista installation to a standard 'User' type. In addition, I turned off the UAC control when setting up the Administrator account. Now, I will run as my User account most of the time unless I need to perform some Administrative task which isn't too often.

The problem I have is when I went to install Visual Studio 2005 I would right click on the vs setup.exe which would spawn multiple setup.exe instances until Vista would prompt me that it has ran out of memory and I should close some programs. In addition, when I went to install Office 2007 I right clicked on the setup.exe then select 'run as Adminstrator' then it would start to execute then eventually tell me 'You must have administrative privileges to install or uninstall this product'. In either case Vista never prompted me for the Administrative password. Why is this the case? I would expect Vista to prompt me for the Administrative password which it never did. Is this the expected behavior that I should expect in Vista? Hello, Okay, from my current understanding the UAC needs to be enabled for the 'run as administrator' to function correctly.