Permission for program

[bj]

Win 7
User account is one of two "admin" accounts

I have a program (Garmin Training Center) that every time I run it asks for
admin permission.
Sometimes it asks at various steps along the way when I try to do something
in the program.

How can I get it to stop doing this?
I'd like to be able to just connect my device & have the program run
automatically w/o having the extra pop-up permission window.
(pop-*under*, actually, which I don't always notice & I often have sound
turned off & don't see it)

Is remembering to choose "run as admin" every time the only solution?
Even if I do choose that, it still asks for permission to "make changes to
this computer" before starting up -- I'm not even sure what changes it's
talking about, since the program is just importing data (albeit from an
"external" source.)

I have plenty of other programs that don't do this & some of them make more
changes than TC ever does. So where have I maybe missed a setting?

Thank you for suggestions (other than "don't use WLM".)
bj

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, bj.

Right-click on the .exe file, or on the program in the Start menu. Then,
rather than Run as Administrator here, which grants one-time permission,
click Properties, then the Compatibility tab. At the bottom of this screen,
check the box to Run this program as an administrator. This should
eliminate the need to "Run as..." every time.

This does not always work for all applications; some of them still insist on
authorizations internally, but it should cut down dramatically on the
interruptions. For example, Family Tree Maker still insists on getting
permission to run every time, even with the setting in Compatibility and
even if I right-click and Run as Administrator.

We could turn of User Access Control, of course, or set its security level
so low that we have no protection, but I don't choose to do that and I don't
recommend it.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3508.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1


"bj" wrote in message
Win 7
User account is one of two "admin" accounts

I have a program (Garmin Training Center) that every time I run it asks for
admin permission.
Sometimes it asks at various steps along the way when I try to do something
in the program.

How can I get it to stop doing this?
I'd like to be able to just connect my device & have the program run
automatically w/o having the extra pop-up permission window.
(pop-*under*, actually, which I don't always notice & I often have sound
turned off & don't see it)

Is remembering to choose "run as admin" every time the only solution?
Even if I do choose that, it still asks for permission to "make changes to
this computer" before starting up -- I'm not even sure what changes it's
talking about, since the program is just importing data (albeit from an
"external" source.)

I have plenty of other programs that don't do this & some of them make more
changes than TC ever does. So where have I maybe missed a setting?

Thank you for suggestions (other than "don't use WLM".)
bj

 

[Stan Brown]

I have a program (Garmin Training Center) that every time I run it
asks for admin permission. Sometimes it asks at various steps along
the way when I try to do something in the program.

How can I get it to stop doing this?

Complain to the software author. This occurs because the software is
poorly written.

 

[Seum]

Complain to the software author. This occurs because the software is
poorly written.

Amen! Win2K was much better written than this mess called Win 7. I am
preparing another computer to return to Win2K and win7 will get a
deserving kick in the ass.

 

[KCB]

Amen! Win2K was much better written than this mess called Win 7. I am
preparing another computer to return to Win2K and win7 will get a
deserving kick in the ass.

I'm pretty sure Stan was referring to the Garmin Software when he said it
"is poorly written".

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I'm pretty sure Stan was referring to the Garmin Software when he said it "is
poorly written".

+1

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

+1

I agree, but if W2K was being updated to keep up with the new
technology, I'd be back in a flash.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I agree, but if W2K was being updated to keep up with the new
technology, I'd be back in a flash.

Is that a 32-bit flash or a 64-bit flash?

To be honest, I have no experience with W2K, but even I can see that
the consensus is very favorable

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

Is that a 32-bit flash or a 64-bit flash?

To be honest, I have no experience with W2K, but even I can see that
the consensus is very favorable

That was part of the problem. My new (used) computer is quad core, and
my copy of W2K is 32 bit. I also don't know how W2K would handle
terabyte SATA drives. Anyway, it is no longer supported, and I got
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 for free, so I bit the bullet and sadly put W2K
on the shelf.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Crash.

I enjoyed Win2K from the day it was introduced in February 2000 to the day
WinXP went RTM in October 2001. Win2K was a GIANT leap up from Win98! But
that giant leap meant that it needed all new drivers, and those were slow to
arrive - until WinXP, when the pace picked up.

I needed a new printer in the Spring of 2000, so I watched the ads carefully
to be sure to buy one that came with Win2K drivers. Finally, I bought a
Xerox - and discovered that the drivers were not really ready. So I
returned it and got an HP OfficeJet G55 in June 2000, because HP said their
Win2K drivers would be here Real Soon Now. Well, the barebones drivers
arrived, but it took TWO YEARS for HP to deliver the wonderful software
package that they had promised. By that time, Win2K was history and I was
using WinXP.

my copy of W2K is 32 bit.

WinXP x64 was the first 64-bit version of Windows, and it didn't arrive
until about 2005, several years after Win2K was retired. And it was hard to
suffer through the first few years of WinXP x64 because there were almost no
64-bit drivers. I haven't used WinXP at all since Vista went RTM in 2006,
so I don't know what the current driver situation is, but I've recently read
very good reports about it from other users.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3508.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1


"Dave "Crash" Dummy" wrote in message

Is that a 32-bit flash or a 64-bit flash?

To be honest, I have no experience with W2K, but even I can see that
the consensus is very favorable

That was part of the problem. My new (used) computer is quad core, and
my copy of W2K is 32 bit. I also don't know how W2K would handle
terabyte SATA drives. Anyway, it is no longer supported, and I got
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 for free, so I bit the bullet and sadly put W2K
on the shelf.

 

[Stan Brown]

Amen! Win2K was much better written than this mess called Win 7. I am
preparing another computer to return to Win2K and win7 will get a
deserving kick in the ass.

You're "amen"ing the opposite of what I said. It's your application
software that is poorly written.

 

[bj]

Thanks, especially for the tip about the "properties"
-- I tried doing all those things but it still balks.
I tried all sorts of variations of choices in the properties tab.
I'll just learn to live with it. At least it's not something I use
a lot anymore.
bj

"R. C. White" wrote in message

Hi, bj.

Right-click on the .exe file, or on the program in the Start menu. Then,
rather than Run as Administrator here, which grants one-time permission,
click Properties, then the Compatibility tab. At the bottom of this screen,
check the box to Run this program as an administrator. This should
eliminate the need to "Run as..." every time.

This does not always work for all applications; some of them still insist on
authorizations internally, but it should cut down dramatically on the
interruptions. For example, Family Tree Maker still insists on getting
permission to run every time, even with the setting in Compatibility and
even if I right-click and Run as Administrator.

We could turn of User Access Control, of course, or set its security level
so low that we have no protection, but I don't choose to do that and I don't
recommend it.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2011 (Build 15.4.3508.1109) in Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1


"bj" wrote in message
Win 7
User account is one of two "admin" accounts

I have a program (Garmin Training Center) that every time I run it asks for
admin permission.
Sometimes it asks at various steps along the way when I try to do something
in the program.

How can I get it to stop doing this?
I'd like to be able to just connect my device & have the program run
automatically w/o having the extra pop-up permission window.
(pop-*under*, actually, which I don't always notice & I often have sound
turned off & don't see it)

Is remembering to choose "run as admin" every time the only solution?
Even if I do choose that, it still asks for permission to "make changes to
this computer" before starting up -- I'm not even sure what changes it's
talking about, since the program is just importing data (albeit from an
"external" source.)

I have plenty of other programs that don't do this & some of them make more
changes than TC ever does. So where have I maybe missed a setting?

Thank you for suggestions (other than "don't use WLM".)
bj