I transferred a Windows 7 box to a Parallels vm via external media using the Parallels Transporter Agent, following the instructions here: http://kb.parallels.com/Attachments/kcs-35993/Parallels Transporter Agent 10 User's Guide.pdf In the process, I selected Enable Automatic Logon (step 9, p. 15 of above link). In the vm, when I right-click something and select "run as administrator", it does not prompt for the admin password. Instead, it just runs whatever I selected, but NOT as administrator. On the original Windows box, in Visual Studio 2008 running NOT as administrator, when I attempt to debug (F5), it would give me the option to restart Visual Studio with the needed privileges. On the vm, it simply tells me I don't have the needed privileges, and gives me no option to restart VS with privileges. I wonder if the culprit is the Enable Automatic Logon I selected in step 9 of the Transporter Agent process. Even if not, I'd like to know: how can I disable Automatic Logon? In the meantime, my work-around is to make my user be Administrator. The main point, of course, is: how can I keep my user as a Standard User, and still get UAC prompts as expected, and VS ask to restart with privileges as it does on the original Windows box? Thanks, David
I found the solution: http://superuser.com/questions/357567/no-uac-prompt-when-opening-the-services-applet While it appears on the one hand this is not strictly a Parallels issue, on the other hand Parallels apparently made this change when creating the vm because the setting was different on the vm than the original machine. Not sure why, but at least it's working now. Thanks, David