Shortcut Shield Overlay

[Daniel Jameson]

Hi,

I installed a program (Paperport Pro 11) on Vista Ultimate 64 SP1 system.
The desktop shortcut icon installed has the standard shortcut arrow overlay
on the bottom left like every other shortcut icon. However, it also has a
Windows Security Center-like, four color shield overlay on the bottom right.
Can someone point me to Microsoft documentation describing exactly what this
indicates (or at least within the limits of Microsoft documentation
"exactly" describing anything (other than their exclusions of responsibility
in EULAs)).

 

[Andrew McLaren]

I installed a program (Paperport Pro 11) on Vista Ultimate 64 SP1
system. The desktop shortcut icon installed has the standard shortcut
arrow overlay on the bottom left like every other shortcut icon.
However, it also has a Windows Security Center-like, four color shield
overlay on the bottom right. Can someone point me to Microsoft

Hi Daniel,

That four-coloured shield indicates the program will run "as
administrator". If you have User Access Control (UAC) enabled - which is
the usual and default config for Vista - the program will require you to
confirm you want to run it; with either a "Click OK to confirm" message
box if you are an administrator, or an "enter administrator password"
dialogue if you are not an administrator.

Programs generally require administrator access on Vista if they write
data to protected areas of the file system or registry. For example, if
they want to write data under the C:\Program Files directory, or under
the C:\Windows directory. Many older programs did use these less secure
techniques, which Vista is trying to stamp out as a security risk.

I don't have PaperPort installed, so I don't know if this is normal for
PaperPort 11. But, I notice that Nuance have an update for PaperPort 11,
to improve compatibility with Vista. You might want to check if you have
this update installed; and if not, get it from Nuance:

http://www.nuance.com/vista

Hope it helps,

Andrew