10 minutes ago, Fielder said:

And it costs a zillion dollars less than P3D !!

There must be an odd exchange rate in your country.

$59.99 vs. $199 here....

6 minutes ago, Fielder said:

$59.99 vs. $199 here....

$199?  Not really.

I mean, without discussing licenses (which isn't allowed) - you may wanna re-check that.

3 hours ago, n4gix said:

Actually, you aren't the "real Administrator", or more accurately you don't have full administrative powers.

There is a special, hidden function in all Win 7, 8 and 10 known as the "Super Administrator" which allows absolutely FULL control of everything. It is similar to the "root level admin" of the Unix platform. The reason it is not easily accessible is simply because it is dangerous for the casual user...

See this article for details:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-the-hidden-administrator-account-on-windows-vista/

Good gravy, I did not know this...thanks for the great insight.

1 hour ago, Fielder said:

And it costs a zillion dollars less than P3D !!

 

1 hour ago, jabloomf1230 said:

There must be an odd exchange rate in your country.

OK look this is interesting. I have both sims. The base simulator is one thing but everybody knows that without many of today's addons the sims in base form are just that basic.

Its the same for both simulators. It took me years to build up a great suite of addons for P3DV4+ upgrading along the way and many many $1,000 I just can't imagine the total.

Now two years into XP11.3+ I am slowly adding planes, utilities, scenery. And the cost is climbing and there is so much more I would like to buy but I actually do have a budget.

I will say this though, that adding and removing stuff in XP is gloriously easy, updating the sim is ridiculously easy. And some of the new planes I have acquired are in the super great category for realism.

Each sim has its own strengths and weaknesses. My all time favourite addon for XP not available for P3D is "Realistic Pro" ...adding amazing levels of sounds,effects to the flying experience. Sure wish we could get this for P3D.

Bryan

On ‎6‎/‎4‎/‎2019 at 12:00 PM, Fielder said:

Let's say we have FSX and other flightsims which were already installed without super admin privileges. Then in that case, is there any advantage now to create a super administer account to use when running these installations which were created by our other account(s) which did not have these privileges? Or would we have to reinstall everything while using a super administrator account?

No real advantage, but plenty of opportunities to really FUBAR your system. As I said, it is dangerous since everything is "unlocked and unprotected", thus subject to easy fat-fingering.

I would only run "Super Admin" if there is some file or folder that simply will not allow you to either remove or make some changes to.

Here is the best description/analogy I've found that outlines the reasons why one would not use "Super Admin" all the time:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/96057/is-it-dangerous-to-have-the-built-in-administrator-account-enabled

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The reason behind disabling it.. Well.. Let me first kind of define an administrator account in a very generic way:

It is a user profile that is had administrator level privileges enabled which essentially gives that particular user complete access to the system.

So.. On windows it is named as 'Administrator'. It always exists on the system, whether enabled/disabled/in-use or dormant. So.. when malwares are written they are programmed to check for the existence of such profiles. Someone could also rename it to admin or root or something like that are generally privileged profiles.

If they do exist.. Voila... It saves me the work of "executing additional code" to gain privileges in the system. People make mistakes.. If they are enabled, let's take control and play havoc.

To make it more clear, let us assume that you are a skilled burglar and want to break into a house. Assume that the "house key" is the admin account. If I check for the house key in generic places like 'under the pot, or under the welcome cat, or on the ledge".. If I get them, I'll break in easily. If you don't keep the set of house keys outside, then I don't find it. The burglar will break it using additional pick-locks and levers (Privilege escalation methods). If your lock is unpickable then you are safe. (Relate it to something like hardening your security).

So you see, disabling it will ensure that the malware atleast has to "put in work effort" in order to gain access to the system. A highly motivated and skilled hacker might be able to get through but can be stopped by implementing tight security controls on the system. If your system is secure, then the malware is useless.

Theoretically speaking.. I hope its helpful.. :)

 

Ahem. Er...disabled it.

 

3 hours ago, n4gix said:

No real advantage, but plenty of opportunities to really FUBAR your system. As I said, it is dangerous since everything is "unlocked and unprotected", thus subject to easy fat-fingering.

I would only run "Super Admin" if there is some file or folder that simply will not allow you to either remove or make some changes to.

Here is the best description/analogy I've found that outlines the reasons why one would not use "Super Admin" all the time:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/96057/is-it-dangerous-to-have-the-built-in-administrator-account-enabled

 

I really appreciate this info, thanks. It seems useful to me...and simple to use...enable it, use it, disable it. Done.

4 hours ago, Ron Attwood said:

Ahem. Er...disabled it.

That's a great idea to be honest. Only activate it for those rare instances where you NEED full access.

Just as one example of how one can get into trouble, deleting a file while in Super Admin mode will absolutely loose that file forever. It will not get "moved" into the Recycle Bin!

I don't know if you know much ancient DOS command line stuff, but imagine the horror of accidentally typing in

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deltree *.* /y  **deletes ALL folders and files on whatever drive you're pointed at when pressing the Enter key.

That is definitely an OMG moment!

1 hour ago, 1st fltsimguy said:

I really appreciate this info, thanks. It seems useful to me...and simple to use...enable it, use it, disable it. Done.

There are several shortcuts available that will allow one to instantly invoke the Super Admin mode, but I removed the one I had because it was too easy to click on and forget you had done so.

I had the nightmare of EZDOK, TrackIR, and FSX not working together intermittently due to a lack of administrative privileges. There were at least 3 separate privilege issues and one or more kept occurring together, and I never knew when the administrative problem came up which corrective method I needed to repeat this time. All the nightmares were due to iterations of that one issue of privileges.

On 6/4/2019 at 8:10 PM, 1st fltsimguy said:

P3D is "Realistic Pro" ...adding amazing levels of sounds,effects to the flying experience. Sure wish we could get this for P3D. 

FYI try A2A Accu-feel or EZDOC 3.0

Both work together very well but accu-feel on its  own is pretty much "Realistic Pro" for p3d. EZdoc 3.0 lacks the sounds but I like it better.