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Re: cygwin-x xterm not compatible with windows 7?


On 12/07/2009 06:13 PM, Mike Ayers wrote:
I'm asking because what I have noticed about Windows 7
>  Home Edition is that even though I have created a user for myself with
>  administrative priveleges, unless I tell the OS that I want to
>  run a program as the administrator it will default to the privileges
>  for an
>  ordinary user.  I don't know a way to turn this off, yet.
I don't believe there is a workaround, unfortunately. Vista has the same issue.


Isn't this just UAC? You can turn that off for a user if you want.


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