WOT: Question for Win7 Geeks, TRUSTEDINSTALLER |
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WOT: Question for Win7 Geeks, TRUSTEDINSTALLER |
HarveyH |
May 4 2011, 09:50 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 450 Joined: 19-June 03 From: Downingtown, PA Member No.: 843 |
Hi everyone,
We have a couple of new computers at home running Windows 7; (yeah, Windows/Mac/Linux arguments, but that’s what we have..) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chair.gif) and I’ve run into the TRUSTEDINSTALLER problem. Does anyone know how (or if it’s even possible) to set up an account with Administrator-Administrator privilege rather than the Administrator-Normal privileges that are usually assigned? For those not familiar with this “ENHANCEMENT” in Vista 64 and Win 7-64, an Administrator does not own certain systems, folders and applications in the computer, they are owned by a ‘service’ named TRUSTEDINSTALLER. This is done supposedly to keep uninformed users from doing something deadly to their computer, but it means that even the Administrator can’t do certain things. There are methods of taking ownership of these systems/folder/apps, but apparently this taking ownership does not percolate down through all of the nested folders and sub-folders so you have to do this for dozens if not hundreds of individual items. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (yeah, I know, Windows/Mac/Linux arguments…) There are probably even a large number of things you can’t take ownership of at all because you can’t access them to a level where you can take ownership. When you go into your User Account an Administrator sees that he/she/it (let’s be politically correct here…) has a ‘Normal’ level of access (as an administrator). There is an ‘Administrator’ (Administrator-Administrator????) level, but when you select it the APPLY button grays out and you can’t process the change. Any help out there? I’ve done a bit of internet searching but all I’ve come up with is the taking ownership resolution. Thanks, |
HarveyH |
May 4 2011, 11:01 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 450 Joined: 19-June 03 From: Downingtown, PA Member No.: 843 |
I ran Spybot for the first time last night on the new machine and it wouldn't let me apply the Innoculate function after the cleanup.
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SirAndy |
May 4 2011, 11:35 AM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,669 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
I ran Spybot for the first time last night on the new machine and it wouldn't let me apply the Innoculate function after the cleanup. What was the file and type of alert Spybot gave you? Not everything it picks up is actually a threat. In those hard to catch cases (mostly rootkit viruses) it really helps to have a dual boot with a Linux partition (i'm using Ubuntu on all my boxes for that). Once you boot into Linux, you can access any system file and otherwise hidden stuff on your Windows partition. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/type.gif) |
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