Administrator indicator when running elevated?

RonH · Post by *RonH » 2012-06-23, 01:54 UTC

Is there a way to display 'Admin' or something similar in the title bar when the application is running elevated?

Post by *petermad » 2012-06-23, 03:02 UTC

The current user name followed by an ^ is shown in the start of TC's title bar when TC is running elevated.

RonH · Post by *RonH » 2012-06-23, 04:18 UTC

Excellent, missed that. Thanks!

robinsiebler · Post by *robinsiebler » 2012-06-26, 01:02 UTC

Better than nothing, but not the slightest bit intuitive - [ADMIN] would be better.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2012-06-26, 05:45 UTC

It is a matter of taste.

robinsiebler · Post by *robinsiebler » 2012-06-26, 18:49 UTC

Hardly! A "mattter of taste" would be preferring 1 meaningless symbol ^ over another !. I am talking about intentionally making something obvious to the user instead of providing a cryptic symbol.

RonH · Post by *RonH » 2012-06-26, 19:10 UTC

I agree, other apps I use display "Administrator:" in the title bar, making it pretty obvious.

My login name = my registered user name. Since 1996 I've become accustomed to seeing that name in the title bar. It didn't immediately register with me when it was displayed twice. But, now I know what to look for and I'm thankful for that.

Now if my registered name and login name were ADMIN.......

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2012-06-27, 05:57 UTC

I think user name is quite enough here, especially since TC doesn't show user name at all for current user account w/o elevation. In other words, you won't see any "user - " or "user^ - " prefix if TC is running under current user account w/o elevation. And, if you see some prefix, you know that program is running under that user's account with full rights (elevation works for currently logged in user and can't be applied to programs started with another user accounts).

The only app I know displaying "Administrator: " is cmd.exe, but such line is too long, and it doesn't show user name (there may be multiple administrators). And, why someone should repeat that? Furthermore, TC have introduced such prefix with user name in v. 5.50 (year 2002), so why it should change something just because Microsoft decided to use "Administrator: " prefix in Windows Vista (year 2006)? In addition to user name TC shows '^' character to remind about elevation in Windows Vista/7.