Coldblackice
[H]ard|Gawd
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I'm seeing strange behavior on a W7 installation I've been using for years --
All of a sudden, it's like the machine has "forgotten" that I'm an administrator. I'm getting:
Any idea what caused this suddenly, or how it's happening? I haven't changed anything as far as user accounts go -- neither my account, nor added any others (I'm the only one on the machine).
It's frustrating because I have 100+ processes running, and I'm not sure which may be having issues running at reduced privileges. I've been wondering why my AHK scripts haven't been able to interact with some windows -- now I realize that it's a privilege issue!
All of a sudden, it's like the machine has "forgotten" that I'm an administrator. I'm getting:
- Permission warnings when trying to write to Program Files directories (which continue after I click continue, no password needed)
- Task Manager is showing the "Show processes from all users" button (which I can't even remember the last time I've seen it there),
- Worst of all, programs I launch aren't getting run as administrator -- I'm having to manually right-click them open as administrator, or having to modify their compatibility to do it.
Any idea what caused this suddenly, or how it's happening? I haven't changed anything as far as user accounts go -- neither my account, nor added any others (I'm the only one on the machine).
It's frustrating because I have 100+ processes running, and I'm not sure which may be having issues running at reduced privileges. I've been wondering why my AHK scripts haven't been able to interact with some windows -- now I realize that it's a privilege issue!