Allow program to open unhindered in Vista

valve90210

valve90210

valve90210

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Hi All

Hopefully quite a quick question. On my computer here at work, which was recently fully reinstalled after a hard drive failure, I use Quark all day every day which is fine except for the fact that every time I want to open a quark file by double clicking I get asked the UAC control prompt asking if I want to allow it to open, which is starting to drive me mad.

Before the rebuild, the IT department had sorted out Quark so it would run without asking permission, but they've not set it up that way this time (mainly cos I've not nagged them to death about it like I did before).

Rather than bother them about it at the moment (as they are right in the middle of a big backup server rebuild) I wondered if I might be able to sort this out, I am set up as a local administrator (as Photoshop wouldn't let me save anything with being set as such...)

Can anyone point me in the right direction so I can give it a try?

Thanks in advance for any help

Valve
 
Get a copy of PSEXEC, and create a .bat to call it and run the quark app with the local admin account credentials, then when you want to run the app, just double click the .bat, no prompt or password popups :)
 
It's already set as run as administrator.

The bat file sounds like a bit much hassle really. Also, would it work when I double click quark files to open them when quark is already open as that is the thing that drives me mad the most!
 
The problem is the program might be set to run as administrator, but (simplified) you are not the administrator until you approve the UAC prompt. To be honest I'd ask your IT department even if they are busy - they'll have done the donkey work the first time they figured it out so it probably won't take them long.

The Photoshop thing is odd though - where would it not let you save files to? The fact that you are getting prompted to just open Quark files (I've never used this however, so I don't know if this is normal) and you couldn't save Photoshop files suggest you might have a permissions problem.
 
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