vista… vista… vista…

October 3rd, 2007 by erik | Posted in blurt |

So I just set up a Windows Vista box and let me say the User Access
Control stuff can be quite the pain (if you’re a computer-oriented
person, I’m sure you’ve read the woes). I wanted to start putty’s
command line guy, plink, to ssh over to the computer I’m using as a synergy server and
then the windows synergy client, synergyc….Both require
administrative rights and I ran into problems. It’s not as easy as
adding a shortcut to the Startup items with the correct parameters
anymore, but it’s also not as painful as it seemed. The first problem
was that Windows Defender wouldn’t let the shortcut execute a program
that wasn’t signed/published by microsoft… Boo. Lame. It would let
me know that it didn’t execute them and once I checked Windows
Defender, there’s no way for me to approve the application. In the
end, I had to create a task using the Task Scheduler and set the
“Trigger” to “on login”, then open the properties of this task, and
check the box that says “Run with highest privileges.”

I’m still scratching my head as to where some items are in Vista, and
usually it takes a second to sift through the new menus… I’m not a
fan of what was redesigned at all, but what can I do. Thank ye gods
that this isn’t my primary machine….