Re: Installing GNAT GPL 2010 on Vista

[casp_1986 <pcas1986@bigpond.net.au>]

On Jun 29, 2:49 pm, Albrecht Käfer <albrecht_kae...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:03:55 +0200, Paul <pcas1...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > I had the same problem as others reported with the HKLM (registry mod?)
> > error and used the "Run as administrator" option from the right mouse
> > button popup menu.  Seemed strange to me as I'm the only user for this
> > system and my user id has administrator status.
>
> Ah, but with default settings, the administrators are running with
> Standard User status unless explicitly elevated. One of the new security
> features of Vista, since people still run as administrator for day-to-day
> work for no good reason.
>
> If you don't like that, lower your UAC setting and enjoy your malware.
>
> Albrecht

Well I'm not going to do that :o)  I haven't paid any attention to UAC
before so thank you for the info.  Dare I say it but Windows seems to
be moving in the same direction as Linux for security.  I find Linux
file permissions somewhat irritating at times but then Windows, in a
standalone - non server role, had little or no security in the past.

On a positive note I have found nice stuff in the latest GPL GPS
version such as hotlinks to declarations and bodies.  Perhaps they
were always there but their Tip of the Day pointed some out to me.
Hopefully Adacore haved fixed the bug that occasionally prevented
saving files using the "Save as" option.  Though I suspect Windows 7
had a part in that problem.  The same problem also showed up
occasionally when trying to add files to a project.

Paul