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Vista blocks PopMenu on startup

Question:

I installed WinBatch 2007 on Vista. It works fine, but every time I start up Vista, PopMenu is blocked and I have to start it manually. Vista Help suggests getting a new version that will run the program as an administrator. Is such an upgrade available now?

Answer:

Vista prevents PopMenu from running and displaying a UAC prompt at startup, by blocking it and then displaying a "Windows has blocked some startup programs" notification balloon giving you the choice to manually unblock and run it, for reasons described here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/archive/2006/08/23/715265.aspx

WorkAround:

If you really want PopMenu to run at startup, you can make a .BAT file that launches it, eg:

cd "C:\Program Files\WinBatch\System" start popmenu.exe

And then change the Start Menu item to run the .BAT file instead of popmenu.exe. Or you can use any other scripting method you want.

It looks like we'll add some stuff to the 2007C upcoming version to deal with the problem of starting PopMenu on a UAC enabled system.

Basically the idea is that you will be prompted for permission the first time you try to actually do anything with PopMenu

User Reply:

I have Vista Premium. I got PopMenu to launch at startup, silently, by changing this registry entry from 2 to 0. Here it is 0.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
\ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin\0 

The default setting is 2.

This is the administrative account elevated prompt behavior. For some reason, the default UAC behavior is to prompt you even when you have determined that a program is safe and you have set it to be run with administrative privileges.

This behavior can be turned off by setting the above key to 0. There is lots of Web discussion of UAC warning dialogs. For some perspective, the site www.tweak-uac.com has an explanation that addresses the concerns of the technical Vista user.

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Article ID:   W17299

File Created: 2007:07:03:14:29:24

Last Updated: 2007:07:03:14:29:24