Hi, I'm using Vista Home Premium, and up until now everything's been going fine. Today I decided to install an add-on for firefox, which worked fine, but when I closed firefox Vista popped up a dialog suggesting that something may not have worked correctly, and asking if I would like to try running firefox with administrator priveleges. Thinking that this would be one-off, perhaps to complete installation of the addon, I pressed yes. Now every time I run firefox I get the UAC 'Continue' screen. I've looked in compatibility settings, and nothing's checked. I did a little experimentation and found that if i renamed or moved firefox.exe, this no longer happaned. In fact, if i replace firefox.exe with another completely unrelated executable (say notepad.exe), vista will run it as administrator, ie. Any file called C:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe now requires administrator priveleges to execute. How can I resolve this issue? A web search returns one forum posting with the exact same problem, on the MSDN forums, and these guys dont seem to solve the problem either:
channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=302717
And another thing: I initially thought "well, since I spent so much on vista I may as well use the professional support", but on going to support.microsoft.com and following the instructions, I'm told that I entered my product ID in an incorrect format, even though I did not. It even says this when I allow the ActiveX control to submit my ID for me.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.

David,
try: Right click the Firefox.exe file, select properties select compatibility tab make sure Privilege Level has the check box cleared for 'Run this program as an administrator'
If you purchased your Vista from an OEM (not boxed or from Microsoft) they are responsible for support, not Microsoft. An OEM supplied ID will not work to obtain support, the error message is really misleading.
Michael
"david"

Hi, thanks for your reply.
The box is cleared, as I stated in my original post. I've also tried setting the box, pressing apply, and clearing it again, but to no avail.
I'm running Vista preinstalled on an HP laptop, so I guess I should contact them for support, though the message is indeed misleading. However I'm not sure how helpful HP support would be with this issue, hence my posting here.
Thanks.
- Original Message - From: "Michael" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 7:36 PM Subject: Re: Vista 'deciding' a program needs to be run as administrator

A quick registry search solved the problem. If anyone else has this problem and wants to fix it, go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
Find the key referencing the troublesome executable and delete it. It would be nice if there was a more elegant way to do this (maybe there is but I just don't know)
"david"

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:03:22 +1200, "david" wrote:

The system that automatically prompts for and applies compatibility fixups for apps (as happened here) is separate to that presented via the various shell and Properties UIs.
So you have the shell "Run as admin" setting, and related Properties setting, and you have the "Admin" checkbox within the Compatability section of Properties as well.
But in addition, there's the system-initiated automatic fixer-upper that you tripped over, and that (by design) has no UI at all (other than the initial pop-ups). So to manage the setting, you have some research ahead... it may be registry, but it may also be something "outside", such as program manifest files.
I'd like to know more about all this, too ;-)

in medicine is the Retrospectoscope > - - - - - -

As i posted earlier, its HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers
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