allowing program access through UAC

[bhemmerling]

I have a stock/financial program installed on my computer. Every time I try to access it through a standard account, I get a UAC prompt that says an unidentified program wants access to my computer. I've tried going to properties while in my administrator account and allowed access for the standard account, but I am still prompted to enter my administrator password every time I try to open the program. Any ideas?

 

[richc46]

If you are being asked to run as administrator this is normal security of Vista.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11841-run-administrator.html
Vista and Seven

 

[bhemmerling]

Thanks, but I don't want them to have to enter my administrator password every time they use the program. I want them to just be able to access it without passwords.

 

[richc46]

I do not believe that can be changed, it is the way the program was written
remove 'run as admin' - Windows 7 Forums

I thought that you were just concered about giving the password, from a security perspective, sorry.

 

[Ardneh]

This might do the job:

Bypass UAC using a Desktop Shortcut

 

[Patonb]

Thats a pretty good way around it.... Nice

 

[bhemmerling]

Okay, I'm getting closer...
I can proceed up to entering the program in "actions" under "create new task". However, when I click okay a task scheduler box pops up and wants me to enter account information for running this task. It has user name and the account I'm trying to get it under automatically pops up, and then it wants a password. This account doesn't have a password, so I don't know what to enter. If I try entering my administrator password it tells me that's incorrect.
Any other ideas?

 

[bhemmerling]

I guess I should also mention that I was able to bypass it under my administrator account (so that I didn't have to type the password), but it just won't work under the other account.

 

[Ardneh]

I'm just going by reading these tutorials, not personal knowledge.

I believe the following apply:

This should be set up from your admin account.

"Run whether user is logged on or not" should be ticked.
(Unless you want that as a requirement.)

Give it your username and password, but choose "Do Not Store Password"

Here's another link that seems helpful.
Create custom event triggers in Vista Task Scheduler | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com

 

[bhemmerling]

I tried what you suggested. It allowed me to create it this time, but when I try to open the program, a black box appears and it says something, but it disappears before I can read it, and then there's nothing there.
Thanks anyways!

 

[chaosrealm93]

just disable the thing, its so useless. just so long as you have some clue to what you're doing, you wont need the annoying "security" that windows offers

-my two cents about windows' sad attempt at security