keywest Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 I have been using ED 4.12 for years and in the recent period have had issues with it on windows 7. Now every time I start it I get a message from windows: Do you want the following program to make changes to this computer? That dialog is referring to express.exe. I have a colleague who also uses 4.12 with windows 7, but he does not have this issue. It may be that he has UAC completely turned off, but I am not sure. If a 5.x version of ED would solve this I'd upgrade, but I'm not sure that it would. I have tried altering the windows 7 compatibility so that it's running for xp sp3, and tried with and without admin rights and it does not help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreelor Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 I have been using ED 4.12 for years and in the recent period have had issues with it on windows 7. Now every time I start it I get a message from windows: Do you want the following program to make changes to this computer? That dialog is referring to express.exe. I have a colleague who also uses 4.12 with windows 7, but he does not have this issue. It may be that he has UAC completely turned off, but I am not sure. If a 5.x version of ED would solve this I'd upgrade, but I'm not sure that it would. I have tried altering the windows 7 compatibility so that it's running for xp sp3, and tried with and without admin rights and it does not help. Hi. I know how frustrating it is to try to use and/or configure Windows 7. It's not a good OS, in my opinion. I suffered with the same issue as you, until someone suggested the following: "Try UNCHECKING the option to "Run as Administrator". Right-click on the shortcut, look at Properties and look for the "Run as Administrator" option. Remove the checkmark. (Note: you may have to do that in several places, for instance: your 'shortcut' to the program, on the program's .exe file itself, etc.). It did, and I am no longer subjected to M$'s rediculous and redundant UAC pop-up! M$ could and should have made it an easy option to deal with, for programs that we use constantly like IE, etc. -- The OS is stripped-down to a point of bare functionality. We just have to deal with it.I wish you luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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