A program needs your permission to continue

[Trevor]

Every time I open a Real Player file I get an extremely irritating black
screen and box saying 'A program needs you permission to continue'.

I had always preferred RealPlayer to WMP and others, but this has stopped me
using it a lot of the time. Is there a way of avoiding this annoying habit?

 

[Xenomorph]

That is warning you that RealPlayer is trying to do something is should
NOT be trying.

Perhaps its trying to mess with file permissions, or copy files in
locations it shouldn't touch, etc.

First, I'd recommend not using RealPlayer. Why do you need to use that
in the first place?

Try checking the options to see if its not trying to mess with settings
on every launch.

I would remove RealPlayer before I ever messed with UAC. UAC is a
wonderful feature that puts retarded programs in their place.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Every time I open a Real Player file I get an extremely irritating black
screen and box saying 'A program needs you permission to continue'.

I had always preferred RealPlayer to WMP and others, but this has
stopped me using it a lot of the time. Is there a way of avoiding this
annoying habit?

Ask the makers of RealPlayer for Vista-compatible version that doesn't
need elevated privileges to run, thereby compromising your security.


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[Steve Thackery]

Disable User Account Control.

Don't! It's important.

Find out why the program is doing this. It is almost certainly an old,
non-Vista-compatible version.

SteveT

 

[Paul Montgomery]

Don't! It's important.

To people that are unfamiliar with computers - yes.

It's a pain in the ass to someone who knows what he/she is doing, who
has proper virus/malware protection, who only downloads from safe
sites, etc., etc. - and who has a good backup strategy.

 

[Trevor]

Disable User Account Control.

Control Panel --> User Accounts --> Turn User Account Controll on or off.

When I do that I get a blue screen of death and have to boot in safe mode
then do a system restore to get back to normal

 

[Paul Montgumdrop]

Every time I open a Real Player file I get an extremely irritating black
screen and box saying 'A program needs you permission to continue'.

Apparently, this is not a program that can run with Standard user
rights, and it must have its privileges escalated. If you were to run it
as Standard user, you would get the prompt to give a user-id and psw
to a user/admin account so that the Standard user could run it I bet. If
the 3rd party vendor would take the time to ensure that its solution can
run with Standard user rights like WMP, then you wouldn't be prompted.

I had always preferred RealPlayer to WMP and others, but this has
stopped me using it a lot of the time. Is there a way of avoiding this
annoying habit?

And that black screen you see during the confirmation is a security
protection mode that Vista and UAC go into to protect the desktop, look
it up.

However, you can disable that black screen protection mode with
something like Xdn Tweaker, which is really only going to the Vista
functionally settings within the O/S to disable/enable features.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/xdntweaker.html

Disable the black screen if you want, but you do it at your own risk and
you're not coming away from that UAC confirmation prompt, unless you
disable UAC.

 

[Trevor]

Apparently, this is not a program that can run with Standard user rights,
and it must have its privileges escalated. If you were to run it as
Standard user, you would get the prompt to give a user-id and psw to a
user/admin account so that the Standard user could run it I bet. If the
3rd party vendor would take the time to ensure that its solution can run
with Standard user rights like WMP, then you wouldn't be prompted.

And that black screen you see during the confirmation is a security
protection mode that Vista and UAC go into to protect the desktop, look it
up.

However, you can disable that black screen protection mode with something
like Xdn Tweaker, which is really only going to the Vista functionally
settings within the O/S to disable/enable features.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/xdntweaker.html

Disable the black screen if you want, but you do it at your own risk and
you're not coming away from that UAC confirmation prompt, unless you
disable UAC.

And if I disable UAC as I have tried I get the SOD and have to go via Safe
Mode and System restore to get normality back. I''m sure it shouldn't be
so?