Any way to stop the recurring appearance of "don't run as administrator" dialogue box
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Devs say "no". Has been asked thousands of times.
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@mach said in Any way to stop the recurring appearance of "don't run as administrator" dialogue box:
administrator account is my only account, I have to wait for it to show up and click "yes" every single time I start the client
It does not matter if your user has the "Administrator" role. My user is admin as well and i don't get this warning. You get this warning if you start the client AS admin.
Don't do this:
Don't do this:
And make sure that you have normal security settings an all relevant files and folders.
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Just technically for windows these days if the user is admin and also has UAC turned off then everything is run with admin privileges by default
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@katharsas said in Any way to stop the recurring appearance of "don't run as administrator" dialogue box:
It does not matter if your user has the "Administrator" role. My user is admin as well and i don't get this warning. You get this warning if you start the client AS admin.
I just normally open it (double click) and it gives me that dialogue box every time
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i also asked for this long time ago.
don't expect any help with this issue. -
did you find any workaround?
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Workaround: configure your windows as recommended by Microsoft
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@brutus5000 How?
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Enable UAC (this is what recommended by microsoft)
This can already be enough to solve the problem
Then make sure that users have rights to "C:\programdata\faforever" folder
or just delete it and the problem should no longer appear, FAF should redownload files with correct settingsTA4Life: "At the very least we are not slaves to the UI" | http://www.youtube.com/user/dimatularus | http://www.twitch.tv/zlo_rd
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is this dialogue box a client thing or a windows thing, because I can't find any other program that does this to find a solution? just to be sure I am talking about this:
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@mach I solved this following the Zlo's post.
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unfortunately I already had it set like that and it still pops up
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@mach did you try to delete FAForever folder from programdata?
(or can move it if you care about content of it, like replays or custom strategic icons)TA4Life: "At the very least we are not slaves to the UI" | http://www.youtube.com/user/dimatularus | http://www.twitch.tv/zlo_rd
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@zlo said in Any way to stop the recurring appearance of "don't run as administrator" dialogue box:
@mach did you try to delete FAForever folder from programdata?
I just did but same thing happens when I open FAF afterwards
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I store all data on disk D, so I succeeded on the pressing-the-OK-button step.
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@Mach
Make sure to rightclick the shortcut (what you double click) and make sure the admin option is disabled:
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it is unchecked
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Ok then pls also check this one:
If that does not help then i would say your windows or FAF install has been fiddled with by some third party program (any "Tuning" programs or similar running?) in a bad way.
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oh I dont have that tab, I was using the .exe itself, not a shortcut
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Well, either your security permissions are messed up, or you have third party software messing something up.
On a default windows installation your applications never run as admin unless the app itself is reqeusting admin rights, which the FAF client does not do.
