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Thursday, March 19, 2009

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How to Stop Vista Objecting to Programs at Startup

Wed, 03/18/2009 - 23:33 — ianjrichards

Oh the joys of Vista.

One of its many "charming" characteristics is that it will fail at startup to run certain utilities you have installed.

It does this for your protection but when you have deliberately and consciously installed a program and it wont run, it is a total pain.

The classic example is the wonderful free "Everything" search program. After you install "Everything" Vista will simply not automatically run the program at startup. Instead it issues a warning message. The only way to start the program is to do it manually.

However Mark Wittels, one of our regular site vistors, has found a way of getting around the problem. Here's what he suggests:

"Often, when you use a third party program in Vista such as "Everything" or "Secunia PSI" which is set to start on boot, Vista's user account control' (UAC) will block the program because it can't get a response from you to elevate access privileges. This requires you to unblock the program in response to an information balloon that appears.

The simple way to avoid this annoyance is to use Vista's "Task Scheduler" to start the program.