SP1 and Vista constantly wheedles for "Run As Administator"

Carl Bateman wrote:

After applying SP1 to VC++ Express in Vista, when I launch VC I get a warning telling me that I should run it as administrator. It seems to work with no problems. I get the warning whether I run as admin or not. Is this a bug, feature or something else? Is there a fix or workround?

In addition to the VC++ 2005 Express Edition Service Pack 1 (SP1) download, you must also install the Visual Studio SP1 Update for Vista, a separate, supplemental download. Did you install both of them? I believe one of them has a fix for the constant administrator nag. You do not need to run VC++ Express as administrator.

These are the first two items in Step 3 on the Visual Studio Express Download page.

- Dennis

orcmid at 2007-10-3 >

Carl Bateman wrote:

Thanks for the feedback. Looks like I downloaded the update but forgot to install it (d'oh). Will check further. ... Nope, that's not it! I'm still getting the same message... sigh!

Have you checked the "Run as Administrator" for visual c++? If so, try uncheck it.

BiteQiu-MSFT at 2007-10-3 >