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Offline bmwgs

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Stupid Question
« on: October 03, 2009, 12:57:17 PM »
I am probably going to get laughed at for asking this question, but here it goes. 

On my some of my desk top icons there is a shield that has red, blue, green, and yellow colors.  I find this same shield if I right click on the icon next to the run as administrator.  All my icons do not have this shield, only a few.  What does this shield mean?

Thanks

Fred
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Re: Stupid Question
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2009, 04:52:07 PM »
Fred can you take a picture of it and post it on here might help us see whats going on
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Offline Chalenge

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Re: Stupid Question
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2009, 05:04:49 PM »
In Windows Vista if a file requires elevation in order to be launched (run) it will have the UAC icon overlayed on the normal icon for that program. If you are computer savy I would say turn UAC off but you will have to judge what to do for yourself especially if there are other non-savy people on your system (not that UAC is going to save anything anyway).
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Re: Stupid Question
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2009, 10:24:39 AM »
Fred - there is no such thing as a "stupid" question - stupid answers...yes - and I've given a few in my years heheh
Today I've learned something new!!

thanx eh! :D
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Re: Stupid Question
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2009, 04:08:26 AM »
I am the only one that operates this system.  At the risk of life and limb, the wife and adult children know not to even to turn on my computer.   :D  Now understand, they each have their own computers. 

I turned off the uac and rebooted the computer and the shield is still there.  The system seems to run fine, just was wondering what it was.  Kilz I'm trying to figure out how to take a screen shot of it, but the prt scr button doesn't do it, so I'm not sure how to take a screen shot of the desk top.

I was talking to some computer knowledgeable friends today, but they don't run vista.  The said it sounds like the Microsoft security shield, if that helps anything.

Thanks for the suggestions,

Fred
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Re: Stupid Question
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2009, 08:08:42 AM »
I have no idea what you are running, but is it similar to this?
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Offline bmwgs

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Re: Stupid Question
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2009, 10:14:19 AM »
Quote from: thndregg on October 05, 2009, 08:08:42 AM
I have no idea what you are running, but is it similar to this?
(Image removed from quote.)

That's the shield, but it doesn't have security center written on it.  The shield (only) is implanted on the bottom right in some of my desk top icons.

 :salute

Fred
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Re: Stupid Question
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2009, 01:23:01 PM »
UAC is not fully disabled... I believe this is how I did it (but its been more than a year and I have slept since then):

http://www.tweak-uac.com/home/
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