UAC (User Account Control)

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UAC (User Account Control)

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From 7.00 change log:

+++ Now you can freely determine XYplorer's application data path und
thus banish any UAC (User Account Control) issues.
How? I can't find this option anywhere.
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Re: UAC (User Account Control)

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alexey_r wrote:From 7.00 change log:

+++ Now you can freely determine XYplorer's application data path und
thus banish any UAC (User Account Control) issues.
How? I can't find this option anywhere.
Look for "startup.ini" in the Help and scroll the help page down to the bottom.

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I've done that, set AppData/Path to E:\XYplorer\appdata (XYplorer is installed in E:\XYplorer), but still get an UAC prompt at the startup.
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alexey_r wrote:I've done that, set AppData/Path to E:\XYplorer\appdata (XYplorer is installed in E:\XYplorer), but still get an UAC prompt at the startup.
Can somebody on Vista help here?

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Post by Pagat »

Does it work with the following startup.ini?

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[Appdata]
Path=%APPDATA%\XYplorer

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Pagat wrote:Does it work with the following startup.ini?

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[Appdata]
Path=%APPDATA%\XYplorer

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No, and "Go to Application Data" shows it is being set correctly.
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alexey_r wrote:still get an UAC prompt at the startup.
One possibility for this:

Look on the "Compatibility" tab of the properties for the xyplorer.exe file and/or the shortcut you're using to start XY. If the "Run this program as an administrator" box is checked, then uncheck it to avoid the UAC prompt.

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mwb1100 wrote:
alexey_r wrote:still get an UAC prompt at the startup.
One possibility for this:

Look on the "Compatibility" tab of the properties for the xyplorer.exe file and/or the shortcut you're using to start XY. If the "Run this program as an administrator" box is checked, then uncheck it to avoid the UAC prompt.
It worked! It was set to run as administrator in the "Show settings for all users", for some reason.

Now I can finally use XYplorer as my default file manager :D
Alexey Romanov

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