Hi everyone. My new PC Laptop arrives this Tuesday! I am pretty excited about this.
Since you all have a lot of experience, I was hoping to get suggestions on how you set up your accounts. I am thinking that I will set up and Administrator Account, and also set up a Standard User Account. I would use the Administrator Account strictly for installing software, while I would use the Standard User Account for my Cubase Projects.
I am open to your suggestions on what you find works best for you, please? I was also thinking that I could set up and Administrator Account, and then switch it to a Standard User Account whenever I use Cubase. I am aware that I don’t want to run Cubase as an Administrator.
I would appreciate hearing what you find works best for your setup, and any other advice so that I can start off on the right foot with my new install.
Thanks very much! I look forward to hearing from you.
That consideration specifically applies to right clicking on Cubase and starting it with “run as administrator”. Even if you are using an account with administrator privileges, Cubase will run in user mode unless you are explicitly asking it to run as administrator.
I only set up one account on my systems, and it has (and needs to have) administrator privileges. But, but default, everything you do runs in user mode. If something you try to do (e.g. installing software) needs administrator privileges, Windows will pop up a dialog box to request privilege to do that operation. For me, having only the one account is just a lot cleaner than alternatives. The only time I’d use normal user accounts on my systems is if I needed to set up an account for someone else to use. In that case, though, they might not be able to use some applications that install (at least by default) only for the user account installing those applications. There are some applications that, when I install them, specifically ask whether I want them to be available for only the current user account or for all users on the system. (In the latter case, I think they install under public instead of the specific user account.) But since I am typically the only user on my system, I typically just choose to only install those applications for the current user account. (I have no clue if there are specific applications that default to all users or one user without prompting the user doing the installation to make a choice.)
As long as UAC is enabled, yes. This is the default behavior, but if UAC is disabled, then the process will indeed run with administrative privileges. Figured I’d point that out.
Thank you so much, rickpaul! That makes perfect sense, and saves extra confusion and configuring. I will do it the way you suggested! Much appreciated.
Reminds me, I don’t care what anyone says, UAC is among the first 6 things I completely disable in a clean Windows install. Hate that thing and always have.
In fact, I enjoy seeing the “not recommended” warning just before I banish it…..I don’t wanna be warned about nuthin’. Ever!
I too, only run one account and can’t remember the last time I had to specifically force-run anything as administrator after an unwanted prompt.
Interesting point. Well worth investigating as well. Instead of getting too bogged down right off the bat, I will load the software and then do some testing and see what works the best…Thanks for your insight!
