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Find And Run Robot / Re: Running FARR as Administrator launches applications as Administrator - Conflicts

« on: April 11, 2011, 11:48 PM »

IMHO, you shouldn't be running anything as administrator, except *maybe* some OS tools that require that, or an occasional (older) installer.
If something doesn't play nicely with Windows Vista or 7's new security scheme, either get the updated version of that software, or run it in compatibility mode.

If you dislike UAC or it hinders you too much, then you can turn it off, but that's not advisable in most of the cases either.

-Ath (April 11, 2011, 01:29 AM)

Hi Ath,

Thanks for your reply.

I have nothing against UAC. But similar to other users in this thread, I couldn't get the TinyEv plugin to work without running FARR with administrator privileges. I'd rather not run anything as administrator, so if there are any suggestions to work around it, I'm all ears.

Thanks!

- sfb

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Find And Run Robot / Running FARR as Administrator launches applications as Administrator - Conflicts

« on: April 10, 2011, 08:53 PM »

Hi all,

Apologies for the "duh"-sounding topic title, I'd like to know if anyone else is running into this same problem.

In order to use the TinyEv plugin, I had to change FARR's startup to run with administrator privileges using the Task Scheduler/UAC trick. Great. However, this has kicked off a domino effect. Now, the applications I launch using FARR run with administrator privileges and are no longer playing nice with other "normal user" applications. For example, Dexpot, the virtual desktop manager. So I again used the Task Scheduler trick to run Dexpot. That fixed that problem. But oh no, now my Autohotkey key commands are now being ignored by the applications launched by FARR.

Before I continue down this rabbit hole, has anyone experienced this problem? Is there an easier workaround than essentially running *everything* with Administrator privileges??

Thanks!

-sfb