permit desired applications to run correctly

[John DeStefano]

There are several "third-party" applications that I'd like to run on
my Vista Home Premium machine, and that are being crippled on varying
levels.

I've tried disabling the User Access Center to see whether that has an
effect, but it only stops "Cancel/Allow" dialogs from being displayed
when I try to run them. Instead, the applications either return
access errors, or nothing at all as they just don't get run. I've
also tried right-clicking a file associated with an application (as
well as the application itself) and choosing "Run as Administrator,"
and assigning the "Run as Administrator" privilege to the application
binary. All have similar results.

Three good examples of apps that aren't behaving properly are the
WinRAR archiving program, the QuickPAR archive recovery manager, and
the testdisk partition management application. I assume the problem
is that these apps don't have their drivers signed by Microsoft.

is there an access list of some way to let Vista know that I trust
these applications?

 

[Kerry Brown]

There are several "third-party" applications that I'd like to run on
my Vista Home Premium machine, and that are being crippled on varying
levels.

I've tried disabling the User Access Center to see whether that has an
effect, but it only stops "Cancel/Allow" dialogs from being displayed
when I try to run them. Instead, the applications either return
access errors, or nothing at all as they just don't get run. I've
also tried right-clicking a file associated with an application (as
well as the application itself) and choosing "Run as Administrator,"
and assigning the "Run as Administrator" privilege to the application
binary. All have similar results.

Three good examples of apps that aren't behaving properly are the
WinRAR archiving program, the QuickPAR archive recovery manager, and
the testdisk partition management application. I assume the problem
is that these apps don't have their drivers signed by Microsoft.

is there an access list of some way to let Vista know that I trust
these applications?

The problem probably isn't signed drivers but more likely the programs are
trying to right to the system area of the registry or file system. Have you
tried the program compatibility wizard? In Help and Support search for
compatibility wizard. You probably won't be able to eliminate the UAC prompt
on startup but you may be able to get the programs to work.

 

[Kerry Brown]

The problem probably isn't signed drivers but more likely the programs are
trying to right to the system area of the registry or file system. Have
you tried the program compatibility wizard? In Help and Support search for
compatibility wizard. You probably won't be able to eliminate the UAC
prompt on startup but you may be able to get the programs to work.

LOL - that should be write not right.

 

[John DeStefano]

The problem probably isn't signed drivers but more likely the programs are
trying to right to the system area of the registry or file system. Have you
tried the program compatibility wizard? In Help and Support search for
compatibility wizard. You probably won't be able to eliminate the UAC prompt
on startup but you may be able to get the programs to work.

That's definitely true in the case of testdisk: I was trying to
recover a deleted partition table entry, and Vista would let me run
the program and go through all the motions, but it wouldn't let the
application write to the table to fix the problem.

With the other two (WinRAR and QuickPAR), it doesn't seem to matter
where they run: I tried moving the files they were working on in a
different partition on a separate drive, and their operations would
still fail.

Thanks for the pointer toward Program Compatibility Wizard. Since
these apps have no trouble running under XP, I'll give the wizard a go
and see whether it helps.

 

[John DeStefano]

The problem probably isn't signed drivers but more likely the programs are
trying to right to the system area of the registry or file system. Have you
tried the program compatibility wizard? In Help and Support search for
compatibility wizard. You probably won't be able to eliminate the UAC prompt
on startup but you may be able to get the programs to work.

So, I ran through the prodcedure here:
http://support.riverdeep.net/techtips_detail.asp?id=164

Had no trouble following, until this step:
"Choose the desired display settings and click Next to continue.
Administrator privilege options will display."

When I click Next, the only option on the screen is "Run this program
as Administrator", and it's greyed out so I can't select it. I have a
feeling that this setting would be necessary... why am I seeing
something different here, and why isn't the option available to me?