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    Acer 6920 UAC slow in ltd user

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by snowbound, Aug 17, 2008.

  1. snowbound

    snowbound Notebook Guru

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    I just bought a Acer Aspire 6920 w Vista64 w 4gb ram and 320 gb hd w Vista64 SP1. I noticed that if I am running as a limited user and try to run an application that requires Admin priveleges that the UAC takes 20 secs to "Looking for Credential Tiles" before I actually see the prompt for the admin password. Only thing I did was uninstall McAfee and Office 2007 trial. Also had installed Firefox 3.0.1, NOD32 ver 3 and Open Office. I tried uninstallling these 3 applications but that had no effect on the problem.

    I am thinking of using the recovery dvds that I created and doing a clean install since I have no data on the laptop. Is there a way of doing a restore from the hidden partition or are these DVDs the only way to start back at square one?
     
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    If you have a backup partition made by Acer, you should be able to do a restore to factory settings. But that would mean the bloatware comes back too.
    Why not just make life easier for yourself and disable UAC altogether?
     
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  3. snowbound

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    Because I will not be the only person using this laptop. How does one get access to the recovery partition as I see no key combination in the manual to do this.
     
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    If you don't see the recovery partition, then it's probably not there. You can double check by going to Start Menu -> Right Click on Computer -> Manage -> Disk Management and see if there are any other partitions.
    Again, I doubt it's there if you don't see it when you double click on "My Computer". A clean install from the DVD isn't that hard anyway, and you won't get any bloatware with it.
     
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    There are two EISA partitions one 12GB and the other 3GB. Found out that the key combo to get the recovery partition menu is ALT+F12 at bootup. Stilldoes not explain the 20 sec period for the UAC to prompt me for the Admin password.
     
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    Found out that the 20 sec delay is being caused by the Validity Fingerprint Service. When it is disabled the password prompt appears in 3 seconds.

    Acer has no record of anyone else reporting a similar problem.
     
    snowbound, Aug 18, 2008
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    ther is a hidden partition of 10gb. access through bios
     
    popeye2k8, Oct 22, 2008
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