"Allow" a program at startup

[Guest]

I have Desktop Weather installed and it works as it should.....except Windows
Defender will not allow it to open at bootup. Of course Windows Defender
give me the option to open the program.

I've read all I can find about this and cannot find a solution that will
allow my Desktop Weather load at bootup.

Any ideas?

 

[Jon]

I have Desktop Weather installed and it works as it should.....except
Windows
Defender will not allow it to open at bootup. Of course Windows Defender
give me the option to open the program.

I've read all I can find about this and cannot find a solution that will
allow my Desktop Weather load at bootup.

Any ideas?

If it starts up from HKLM, shift it to another location, such as your
startup folder.

 

[Guest]

If it starts up from HKLM, shift it to another location, such as your
startup folder.

Thanks. I just tried this and it doesn't work. I've also tried adding "run
as administrator" and run with Windows XP compatibility.

It's not a big deal. It's just irritating not finding a way to do something
I want to do the way I want to do it.

 

[Daze N. Knights]

I've got the same irritating situation with Ccleaner.

 

[Jon]

Uncheck the 'Run as administrator'. If you're trying to run it as admin,
then it's a nogo.

 

[mikeyhsd]

run it as a scheduled task.


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I have Desktop Weather installed and it works as it should.....except Windows
Defender will not allow it to open at bootup. Of course Windows Defender
give me the option to open the program.

I've read all I can find about this and cannot find a solution that will
allow my Desktop Weather load at bootup.

Any ideas?

 

[Daze N. Knights]

How does one "Uncheck the 'Run as administrator'" ?

 

[Jon]

Assuming a shortcut, then right-click it > Properties

Click 'Advanced' on the Shortcut tab, and uncheck the relevant box,
or look at the 'Compatibility' tab in the 'Privilege level section, and
uncheck the relevant section if checked.

BUT... re: the problem...

Take a look at what mikeyhsd wrote earlier. That is a good suggestion, since
you can schedule tasks to run at user logon, and they can be run elevated
(since you already pass elevation prompts to setup the tasks in the first
place)

Start > taskschd.msc

 

[Daze N. Knights]

My "Run as Administrator" wasn't checked, as it turns out. I'll look
into scheduling it.

 

[Guest]

Assuming a shortcut, then right-click it > Properties

Click 'Advanced' on the Shortcut tab, and uncheck the relevant box,
or look at the 'Compatibility' tab in the 'Privilege level section, and
uncheck the relevant section if checked.

BUT... re: the problem...

Take a look at what mikeyhsd wrote earlier. That is a good suggestion, since
you can schedule tasks to run at user logon, and they can be run elevated
(since you already pass elevation prompts to setup the tasks in the first
place)

Start > taskschd.msc

The task scheduler approach looks like it has possibilities. I have the
task scheduled and I'll see if it works when I have time to reboot.

Thanks for your input.

 

[Guest]

Thank you everyone for you suggestions. I'm resigning myself to dealing with
Windows Defender and UAC to use Desktop Weather.