Vista

[The Borg]

Hi all,

Can you please help me stop Vista asking my permission when starting programs.

I have Speedfan and BOINC (DC) in my start menu, but whenever my machine reboots (on auto updates or power outages), these programs don't restart. It is frustrating loosing precious processing time when the power fails and I am not around on startup.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Tarrant64]

Disable User Access Control(UAC).

Please Google it. Sometimes hard to describe exactly how it's done. It's in User Accounts or Profiles. Somewhere in there.

 

[The Borg]

Cool, thanks. Works.

 

[cockeyed]

You might want to try Tweakuac: LINK

 

[kylef]

Alternatively, you could try to figure out why BOINC and SpeedFan are broken when run as a limited user.

BOINC certainly shouldn't need admin privileges. SpeedFan probably loads a driver or opens a device which requires permissions; you could alter the ACLs for the device, if appropriate, and run it successfully as a limited user.

Just a thought. Running as Full Admin really isn't the source of the problem. Apps shouldn't expect total system access these days. If they do, they're broken.

 

[Smilin]

Nothing about either of those applications should require permissions that UAC restricts. Disabling UAC is a nasty workaround. Tell em to fix their app.


Hardware monitoring utilities should trigger a UAC prompt when they install a driver but that's it. The driver should be communicating with a user-mode app that requires only simple permissions.

 

[surfsatwerk]

When you run the program for the 1st time and get that permission window, sn't there a little checkbox you can unclick that says you don't want to be asked for permission when you run the program.

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Smilin
Nothing about either of those applications should require permissions that UAC restricts. Disabling UAC is a nasty workaround. Tell em to fix their app.


Hardware monitoring utilities should trigger a UAC prompt when they install a driver but that's it. The driver should be communicating with a user-mode app that requires only simple permissions.

boinc's a pretty popular program, but every time i restart my pc, windows defender always blocks it!
so, is it boinc, or is it ms? 🙂

 

[kylef]

Originally posted by: TAandy
boinc's a pretty popular program, but every time i restart my pc, windows defender always blocks it!
so, is it boinc, or is it ms? 🙂

Defender blocks it, or the Windows Firewall blocks it?

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: kylef

Originally posted by: TAandy
boinc's a pretty popular program, but every time i restart my pc, windows defender always blocks it!
so, is it boinc, or is it ms? 🙂

Defender blocks it, or the Windows Firewall blocks it?

defender!

 

[TAandy]

got a lappy running vista premium, and a desktop running premium,
on both, windows defender blocks this program.
there's one pc in the house running xp, no problem!

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: Smilin
Nothing about either of those applications should require permissions that UAC restricts. Disabling UAC is a nasty workaround. Tell em to fix their app.


Hardware monitoring utilities should trigger a UAC prompt when they install a driver but that's it. The driver should be communicating with a user-mode app that requires only simple permissions.

boinc's a pretty popular program, but every time i restart my pc, windows defender always blocks it!
so, is it boinc, or is it ms? 🙂

It's you.

Add boinc to the allowed programs list in defender.


With speedfan it's speedfan's fault for writing an application that uses requires permissions that are not necessary to run. Hope it doesn't have a vulnerability 🙂

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Smilin

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: Smilin
Nothing about either of those applications should require permissions that UAC restricts. Disabling UAC is a nasty workaround. Tell em to fix their app.


Hardware monitoring utilities should trigger a UAC prompt when they install a driver but that's it. The driver should be communicating with a user-mode app that requires only simple permissions.

boinc's a pretty popular program, but every time i restart my pc, windows defender always blocks it!
so, is it boinc, or is it ms? 🙂

It's you.

Add boinc to the allowed programs list in defender.


With speedfan it's speedfan's fault for writing an application that uses requires permissions that are not necessary to run. Hope it doesn't have a vulnerability 🙂

it's me, i knew it!!! 🙁
it's not!
stupid defender won't allow me to allow it!!


come on, you think i haven't tried that??? 🙂