For those using vista and F@H

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Whitestar

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Some people seem to be having trouble with getting F@H running as a service. This is because standard users can't change the registry even tho users that you set up are part of the administrators group and programs running in cmd line dont bring up the UAC box when they need more access.

There are two ways round this.

1) If your computer is part of a domain, log on as the local administrator.
To do this you have to activate the administrator account and give it a password using computer management. Then log off, click switch user and in the username box they ".\Administrator" (without quotes) and put the password. You can then set up folding the way you would in xp.

2) If your computer is part of a workgroup.
For this all you have to do is create a shortcut to the fahcore, right click it and the click 'Run as Administrator'. You can then set up folding like you would in XP.

HTH
 
Dang it, I just came here to post how I fixed it. :)

Vista uses a superuser authenticaion system extraordinarliy similar to Ubuntu's and OS X's. When a task requires superuser (administrator) rights, it asks for you to approve it (when logged in as an admin) or provide a password (when logged in as a regular user.

Installing the service requires superuser rights but it never asks for authentication, it just denies access to creating the service. You could sudo as Mr. Whitestar explained. I did it a different way.

I went into the User Accounts panel. I told it to disable UAC (User Account Control). This is the system that keeps asking for authentication. It required a restart but worked like a charm when I tried to service install it again.

Mr. Whitestar's solution is more elegant this this as it leaves the security in place.
 
You can talk. I got a change made yesterday, and no-one has noticed yet. The stopwatch is still running. ;) :p

I'm an MSDN subscriber, so I already got previous Vista betas through that. Once I get the new disk fitted in my work PC, Beta 2 will be virtualised. :)
 
I've been experimenting around and it seems Mr. Whitestar's advice is spot-on. To get it to install, don't souble click it, either a shortcut or the console itself. Right click on it then select "Run as Administrator." This will unlock administrative rights. I see it as being almost identical to running a command in UNIX with the sudo prefix.
 
I might be being thick here, but isn't this exactly the same as installing something in XP ie. right click 'Run as...'. I havn't bothered with Vista yet but it sounds exactly the same :confused:
 
Vista includes the ability for users not logged-in as the admin to perform admin tasts by authenticating as a superuser. Installing the FAH service requires permissions over-and-above those granded to the default user, the admin you create when you install. To overcome this you have to tell it to allow you to do superuser tasks.
 
Pretty much, but it's not the default in XP. XP defaults to letting users do everything, which is the source of many a security breach. It's about time they did this, but in my case, if it gets in the way, it'll be turned off (I hack about in the registry quite a lot).
 
I notice FahMon is having similar issues with the security. When you go to close out the program it gives an error saying it could not open a file and the list of clients will not be saved. To make that go away one must select that it should run as an administrator in its properties or by right clicking it and selecting "Run as Administrator."
 
I'll wager that depends where it's installed. I suspect quite a few applications are going to run into issues writing files to their install directories. It's a bit naughty (to say the least).
 
BillytheImpaler said:
I notice FahMon is having similar issues with the security. When you go to close out the program it gives an error saying it could not open a file and the list of clients will not be saved. To make that go away one must select that it should run as an administrator in its properties or by right clicking it and selecting "Run as Administrator."
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I had that. I added myself as one of the users that have full access in the security settings for the fahmon folder instead of running as administrator every time.
 
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