I can't believe that we are ten pages in and still showing convoluted ways to get games working under Vista when the easiest and most painless way is simply to NOT install them to your \Program Files folder in the first place! Install them to C:\Games or something. No UAC problems then, so no need to fiddle with privileges, permissions etc etc and no need to get the metaphorical sledgehammer out and turn UAC off altogether (which I've seen some people do - amazing
).
I can't think of any easier solution. Thus I really struggle to understand why Vista users still persist with ignoring this advice, posted across all of the subsim forums many, many times (indeed, I posted it in this one over a year ago), and continue to install into \Program Files. :hmm:
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" and all that.
This only leaves the Starforce driver problem, but that has been answered to death here already.
The misinformation emparted throughout this thread due obviously to a misunderstanding of Vista is real scary.