>Hi Charles,
>
>I'm glad that you won this round against UAC (
Uterly
Annoying
Crap) but it'll get you again pretty soon. :)
>
Well, I won the round on turning it off. I can now attach the databases *without* running SSMS as administrator. The next dragon to slay is Firefox 3.0 crashing regularly on Vista as DEP decides something is making a memory call that is a threat.
>>Sergey, you are indeed something special ! That is exactly what did it. AND IT WORKED!
>>
>>For benefit of lurkers : Just right-clicked on the SSMS icon, chose Run as Administrator and when I attached the DB to the SQL 2008 server it behaved exactly as I wanted with the DB attaching normally and NOT read-only. (and now poking around in the docs for how to turn off the UAC which is at best annoying. While many people who have known me believe I need something to protect me from myself, I would rather not assign the job to Microsoft ... or the government )
>>
>>There's always a steak waiting for you in Cleveland, Sergey. <s>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
