I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 platform hosting a website in a cloud service provider. When I remote desktop in as the main administrator account the UI and system locale is set to Chinese (convenient for the Chinese freelancers we have working on the project). How do I set it so that it is not system wide as it ask for a system reboot.
I created a new user and placed it in the administrator group but how do I set it so that whenever this user logs on, everything is displayed in English while the main administrator user account remains the same and displays Chinese?
I downloaded the english pack and installed it on the server. With my second administrator account, I changed the language under the "Keyboard and Languages" tab to english. Problem solved.
Now my first administrator account will always display windows GUI in chinese while the second one one will display english. Restart of the server was required though as prompted when the setting was changed.
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I am trying to take screenshots of the license information of the application before installing it onto my test window os.
When I click on the installer, the publisher window pops up asking me whether I want to launch the installer or not; But when I want to take screenshots or printscreen using keyboard shortcuts it doesn't work.
It seems that the keyboard shortcuts is disabled during this pop up install dialog.
All I want is to take screenshots at the publisher certificate information before installing the application.
Can anyone with experience on windows help?
UAC: If you are referring to the UAC prompt that shows up first to ask for elevation, then it happens on a secure desktop separate from your main one and hence the screen shot appears impossible. This separate desktop is a security measure. In actual fact it is perhaps the core security measure added to Windows in recent years (don't turn it off permanently).
Disable UAC Temporarily: You can disable this security measure temporarily so you can take a screenshot as described here: How to get a UAC screenshot. Here is a sample screen shot of a UAC prompt for an MSI installation: Numeric file name for msi created with Wix
Here is the essential procedure inlined:
Run gpedit.msc
Locate: Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\SecurityOptions:
Change "User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation" to disabled
Undo this change after the screenshot or your system will be very insecure!
Running into a strange issue with a Windows 7 image. Three years ago, I wrote a Powershell script which took a basic Windows 7 image (with only the Administrator account on it) and the script adds all the user accounts, applications, programs, regedits, et al. Used sysprep to complete the image so it could be cloned using Clonezilla onto several hundred computers and go out to different sites, as well as create replacement PCs down the line.
Those original PCs we used ran out and we got a different line of PCs from the same maker, again with a Windows 7 operating system and just an Administrator account. Found out this time the person who created that basic image for me did not put a password on the Administrator account as they did the first time, so it was automatically logging on for me. Added a password to the Administrator account so it wouldn't auto-login.
Ran my script after making some edits to bring applications up to date. Now after rebooting, it not only tries to Auto logon (despite everything I've checked to make sure Auto logon was disabled), but when you click OK to get past the Auto login error, it only shows the Administrator account instead of showing Administrator along with the other two account icons. You then have to click "Switch user" and it will show only "Administrator" and "other user". You have to click on "other user" and input your account name and password.
How do I get it back to showing me all three account icons - Administrator plus my other two user accounts - after a reboot?
PS - these images were loaded onto the PCs by a person from another dept. Same person three years ago as currently.
I finally discovered from a worker in another dept that Microsoft changed Windows 7 so that the last user logged in is the icon that is shown after logging off or rebooting. Love how Microsoft always "fixes" things that don't need fixing.
We're developing a Microsoft Office Add-in and encounter issues switching from editing a document on Office Online to Edit in Word. Even without the add-in, the issue can be reproduced.
The user which is a registered Microsoft Outlook account has access to a shared directory (folder) on a Sharepoint site. Edit: Opening a file on the users own OneDrive works.
results in a prompt from the Office for Mac to ask the user to sign-in.
After the sign-in, Office for Mac shows a dialog saying user does not have access privileges message in Word on Mac.
The user which is a registered Microsoft Outlook account has access to a shared directory (folder) on a Sharepoint site. The user is registered as an external user (through invitation which has been accepted) on an Azure Active Directory and is part of a user group on this Active Directory which can edit the folder. The user has access to the directory via the group permission, not directly.
Browsing the folder via https://[app].sharepoint.com/sites/pub/Shared%20Documents/[SharedDirectory] as the user works. Documents can be opened and edited on Microsoft Online. Switching from Online edition to Edit in Word or Edit in Excel fails after signing-in with the user.
The very same user is already signed-in to Microsoft Office for Mac and should actually not be prompted again to authenticate.
From the moment of signing-in, Word and Excel behave different.
Word shows a dialog saying Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges.
Excel keeps prompting the user to sign-in.
On Windows 10, Edit in Word/Excel works. If the user is not signed-in to Microsoft Office for Windows yet, a prompt appears similar to the Office for Mac, asking the user to sign in. After the sign-in, the user is signed-in Office for Windows, the document opens and can be edited and saved.
Is there a way to ensure that shared documents can be edited through Office for Mac?
The Mac version used is 15.37 (170815)
The described behavior could be verified by the Microsoft Support team. I created a post in UserVoice and encourage everyone with the same issue to upvote for it and get notified about changes through that:
https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/31387858-enable-viewing-and-editing-of-shared-documents-on
I have developed an application that needs admin rights to execute. Running the application on Windows 7, the user always have to launch the application as "Run as Administrator" otherwise my application prompts the user that "you don't have administrative rights etc...". This is OK and understandable because of UAC in windows 7.
To get rid that the user have to set the application as "Run as Administrator". I updated my application's "app.manifest" and set
<requestedExecutionLevel level="highestAvailable" uiAccess="false" />
Which done the job for me.
But now, a security center symbol shield appears with my application's icon.
Now my question is "Why does this icon appear on my application, and what does it indicate?"
I tried marking another of my applications to "Always Run as Administrator" via windows but the same icon wouldn't appear with that application.
I want to understand the reasons and scenarios.
The shield is there to remind the user that if they double-click the exe to run it, they will get a UAC dialog. These dialogs should never be a surprise and if you get one you weren't expecting, you should really not consent to it.
The shield appears if you have a manifest that requests elevation (requireAdministrator or highestAvailable, but not if your manifest specifies asInvoker), and for certain file names. For more details see my blog entry (written at Vista time, but still applies to Windows 7) and MSDN articles on UAC and UI guidelines.
I want to use a Application on Windows 7 without Admin priviliges.
(Sure for the install process i used Admin priviliges)
Now i had following problem:
When i want to start the application the UAC popup ask for an Admin Account to run the program. But the User had no Admin account and can only click "No" so the Application is closed.
Is it possible to use this application with the rights from the current user and deactivate the UAC prompt?
On Win XP, only popup a error message that the application had no admin priviliges.
But by selecting "Ok" the application is starting and working.
You need to create and embed a manifest into your application. This tells the operating system that your program was written to be compatible with the UAC built into Windows Vista (and later), and therefore does not need to be run as Administrator. Set the requested execution level to asInvoker.
See this article on MSDN for more details.
There's also a helpful, though somewhat more general, article that appeared in the MSDN Magazine regarding UAC: Teach Your Apps To Play Nicely With Windows Vista User Account Control