I just got Vista Ultimate and installed it (Major Mistake)!  So far it's not that great and its very touchy with programs including Poser 6 and 7.  When I try to install Poser 6, I get this error that says, "The requested Operation Needs Elevation".  WTF!!  Can anyone please help me with this.  Does this mean I need to be in Colorado to install it?   Thanks.
Adrian

means it needs to run in admin mode

try this

right click setup.exe and either run it by selecting "Run as administrator", or configure it to require elevation every time it runs by selecting Properties and marking appropriate checkbox on the Compatibility tab.

now remember... I'm working blind here. I don't have Vista myself yet.. this is an educated guess working from items related to the error I looked up..

so if you try it, lemmie know if it works lol

Memoirs from the Bleeding Edge. I've learned my lessons about early adoption (thanks mostly to Adobe) and can only say "good luck with it". Patches will slowly leak out over the next year, be patient. Sorry, its no help, I realize. Unfortunately, its all you've got - unless you are willing to move.

Sorry to hear you're having problems, there has been a number of threads here warning of this very issue with Vista not allowing programmes to run, something to do with some security features of it, do a search and I'm sure one of the threads had a good explanation of the causes and possible workarounds!!
Good luck!!

these "permissions" and admin problems are gonna be major nightmares for some users, if early versions of OS X are any indication, and if vista was based on OS 10.2 and 10.3. it's a very nice of them to offer crippled versions of vista for much less money than "ultimate", but it means that most of the users won't ever know the full capabilities. AFAIK it ain't possible to buy a crippled version of tiger nor leopard. just the full consumer version for typical users.

more for you

seems I was spot on :)

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*'**The requested operation requires elevation'. ***

Fortunately, the solution was easy; as you can see from the screen shot below, just right click the Command Prompt and select Run as administrator from the shortcut menu.  As a result I was allowed to run ipconfig /release.  There was no irritating: 'The requested operation requires elevation'.

now for you, this (should) work the same if you goto the setup.exe on the CD, right click and hit 'Run as Administrator' (as above)

Looks like Windows Vista is incorporating stricter standards, kinda reminds me of Linux when I was playing with that OS.  It's supposedly kept things safer but what a pain in the ass.  I had to set rights just to burn a CD! :lol:  Good luck with all that, hope you get it all figured out! 

Same for MacOS as noted.  Several times I've had to run Repair Disk Permissions when it decided that I was no longer the Adminstrator//Root/SuperUser/Controller-of-the-Universe... ;)

Such features seem odd unless you are A) sharing a computer among several people, B) in a work/school/social environment, or C) foolish enough to allow external logins (guest or whatnot) and don't restrict the account properly.  You don't want someone to have access to your system otherwise, set up a passworded screen saver and run it when away from the computer.

I'm the only person who uses my computers (99.999% of the time - otherwise, I'm at least present).  That should be automatic Administrator always.  Then allow people to downgrade - say for someone who only wants to check email and wants someone else to set them as a plain user.

god bless the BETA testers,
thanks Circumvent, your pain will not be without its followers.
ok i am sorry couldnt help myself, but have you not been reading the forum?
joking aside i wish you all the luck with the new OS

Vista... is nothing but a thick fog on top of a hill.... 

If you got Xp in draw partiton hard drive and put XP back as microsoft wont be realeasing sp1 patch for vista till about nov dec this year, to repair the bug's in it, so dual boot.
After ya put Xp back on install program then when you boot in vista use the xp compatabilty mode.
It may work.

Thanks to all who helped me. I highlighted the Poser.exe file and then installed it as an Admin. It worked great. I agree that this Vista admin thing is going to be a nightmare. What I don't understand is of all these dam pop ups asking you if you are sure you want to do something and you need admin approval. If you are logged in as an admin, why in the hell does it keep asking for admin approval on every click? Is there a way to disable that? Adrian

Isn't there an option somewhere to just turn all those warnings off? It's probably dug in within a few layers of an administration console or something.

yup seems there could be an option to turn the whole security system off. looking into that atm.. don't quote me as gospel on that tho.

Glad I could help you Circumvent :)

aha here we go

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Method for Non-domain Users

In the case of Vista Machines not joined to a domain, Microsoft provide a menu whereby you can turn UAC off.  What can I say?  You should not use this setting?  That would be hypocritical; as someone who loves AutoAdminLogon for non production machines, then unsurprisingly, Guy will uncheck the box 'Use User Account Control...'  If you would like to turn off UAC, then navigate to:

Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Turn User Account Control On or Off.  Now decide if you want to untick the box which say: 'Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer'.

As I often say, my role is to show you the settings and help you to make informed decisions.  In this instance your decision is this: does the security risk outweigh the irritation of having to click 'Continue' every time you wish to perform an administrative task?

thanks to http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/vista/user_account_control.htm for this...
I agree tho.. think carefully about this.. I mean.. we all complained and bitched about the security in Xp... but now they've worked on that... we're bitching about having it?

Humans...

Khai OMG!!!!!!!! It worked!! I can't believe it! All my stuf works now. Thank you so much. I've been looking for that setting all day. Thanks. Adrian

I just got my new computer and they mistakingly put Vista on it instead of XP Pro. I'm not at all happy!!  It's slow and sluggish and seems to take rest breaks (pauses). Plus I'm so sick of getting pop ups about messages that can't be opened until I give Windows permission to open the freaking message. 

Luckily I kept the XP Pro CD from the dud computer that was shipped to me last week so I'm just waiting on Dell to call me back and help me with that.

I don't recommend Vista at all!

I installed XP just as soon as it hit the market.  And I am glad that I did.  But with Vista.......I'm being a lot more cautious.  Even though my machine is only a couple of months old -- I'm looking at Vista as a "later" proposition.  After some of the fallout has fallen out.

I did, however, upgrade to Office 2007.  Love it.