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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.
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Hello David, One simple solution would be to completley uninstall firefox and just reinstall the software.
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| QUOTE | 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.
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Actually, that wouldn't work, assuming I installed it to the same location.
"EJW"
| QUOTE | Hello David, One simple solution would be to completley uninstall firefox and just reinstall the software.
"david" wrote:
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.
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Did you try to right click on the icon then go to properties then to compatibility and then run it in Windows XP (Service Pack 2)? That has solved a few of my problems w\ Vista.
"david" wrote:
| QUOTE | Actually, that wouldn't work, assuming I installed it to the same location.
"EJW" Hello David, One simple solution would be to completley uninstall firefox and just reinstall the software.
"david" wrote:
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.
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As you can read in cquirke's post below, this will not help. The only way (I know) to solve it is by editing the registry. "EJW"
| QUOTE | Did you try to right click on the icon then go to properties then to compatibility and then run it in Windows XP (Service Pack 2)? That has solved a few of my problems w\ Vista.
"david" wrote:
Actually, that wouldn't work, assuming I installed it to the same location.
"EJW" Hello David, One simple solution would be to completley uninstall firefox and just reinstall the software.
"david" wrote:
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.
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