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Posted by theintrepidfox on 03/04/07 17:57
On 1 Mar, 22:13, Erland Sommarskog <esq...@sommarskog.se> wrote:
> (theintrepid...@hotmail.com) writes:
> > Found the Solution on Vista:
>
> > - Go to Control Panel and Switch to Classic View
> > - Click on User Accounts
> > - Click on Turn User Account Control on or off
> > - Uncheck use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your
> > computer.
> > - OK
> > - Restart System
>
> > Try again to attach the DB. It should work now.
>
> > Hope this helps anyone else having this problem.
>
> Maybe a bit heavy-duty. The point with UAC in Vista as I understand it,
> is that you should not run as Administrator all the time, only when you
> need it. While running as Administrator is convenient, it makes it
> easier for any infections your machines may catch to spread. I think
> there is a context-menu option "Run As Administrator".
>
> Personally, I have not had any encounter with Vista yet.
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esq...@sommarskog.se
>
> Books Online for SQL Server 2005 athttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books...
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Hi Erland
Correct. It's heavy duty and my first attempt was to right-click on
the Management Studio Icon and to choose the 'Run As Administrator'
option which didn't work.
UAC is indeed a good feature and helps to protect. But following this
process didn't solve the problem and there was no other choice than
having to turn off UAC.
I haven't tried turning UAC on since I attached the databases to see
what its effect is.
To put it short, UAC is good but not in a development environemnt.
Despite having turned it off VS 2005 still warns me that it may not
work correctly, needing Admin rights but it starts fine without any
errors so far. And anyway, what's the REAL risk of having it turned
off. A Vista machine with UAC off won't become less protected than a
XP machine used to be and any additional security software and common
user sense will help protect the same way. I reckon it's rather good
for my dad who clicks on and executes everything he's prompted with.
Bless him and his viruses.
If anyone has a better suggestion to this workaround which will work
with UAC on, please post it here.
All the best,
Martin
Invent2b Group
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