User Account Control

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Recently (within the past few days or so), every time I go to start up SoaSE, Windows UAC pops up asking if I want to allow the following program (SoaSE) to make changes to this computer. I figured this was a one-time occurrence, but it turns out it happens every time I want to play the game. While it's not a huge deal, it's certainly an annoyance.

I run Windows 7 Ultimate and have all updates installed for Windows as well as SoaSE. I'd rather not shut off UAC seeing as how this was never a problem until a few days ago, and would prefer not to have Windows freaking out on me all of the time saying I'm not as secure as I can be.

Ideas? Suggestions?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Win 7 here too, though allow me to point out that half the games I play do that stupid UAC thing, and I consider it a windows useability flaw against Microsoft, rather than game devs.  Everything from to Civ4 to Dragon's Age to Nethack pops up a UAC, and windows doesn't seem to allow turning it off for just one program, only blanket.

 

If there's a way to turn it off selectively, I'd love to know.  OTOH, as we're clicking to start the game anyway, and clicking a zillion times during play, what's one more click...

 

I'm pretty sure it will pop up for anything that touches local filesystem in any way, though I haven't bothered to download the microsoft SDK for .NET and read up on the system call constraints and how UAC vs programs interact under the hood.

 

-evoke

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

-_-

Hasn't Microsoft learned yet that false positives are extremely damaging to a security program?  Study after study shows that it only takes 2 or 3 false alarms for users to start assuming that every prompt is a false alarm, rendering the security software worthless.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

If there's a way to turn it off selectively, I'd love to know. OTOH, as we're clicking to start the game anyway, and clicking a zillion times during play, what's one more click...
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Setting the shortcut to run as admin *should* do the trick, though I don't use UAC myself.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Tried it, and it still does the same. I've also found that it applies to anything from Stardock, including MyColors. Sadness...