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Originally posted by M73A
i dont have vista... but whats the difference between an xp admin account and a vista admin account 
Nothing. The difference is that Vista doesn't let people run as admin by default. This is the default behaviour of most operating systems, and those operating systems usually have mechanisms for doing more privileged things that are fairly straightforward. The reason for this is it stops unauthorised software installing itself on your computer or changing your settings.
You can still run as administrator, just like in XP- but you'd have to know that you really want to do that rather than have it work that way by default. This is sort of good, because it keeps people who don't know that much about computers, or people on a friend's computer, from installing malware by accident [to a degree]. Further, UAC was designed so people didn't have to run as admin just to install software- this made many people abandon their regular accounts.
[If you want to see how UAC should have been designed, google gksu].
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
-andrewdodd13
