Summary:Is there a simple way to allow a trusted app to launch and bypass UACother than the ACT (application compatibiity toolkit)?More info:I use Win7600-Home Premium (notPro)for software development and Photoshop. With Photoshop, my experience is that the UAC prompt shows up when I start Adobe Photoshop, Bridge, DngConverter, and other components of the CS4 suite. My understanding is that this is because these non-privileged applications modify files and create files.I would like to have "finer granularity" to tell UAC to allow these apps to run. I have them set to "Run as Administrator", but I'm still seeing the UAC prompt. I'm reluctant to turn-off UAC entirely, or lower its default. If anything, I would like to make UAC more hostile to unfamiliar apps, but friendlier to trusted apps.In searching the web, I came across references to using the ACT to accomplish this. I've downloaded the files associated with ACT 5.5, but haven't yet installed them. I wanted to find out if there is a simpler way and thus avoid getting up to speed with ACT if I can avoid it. ACT 5.5 seems like using a chain-saw to slice bread.The websites I came across seemed oriented to Vista, but the Microsoft website regarding ACT 5.5 seemed to include Win-7.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=24da89e9-b581-47b0-b45e-492dd6da2971&displaylang=enAlso, I use an older Explorer replacement, PowerDesk, which hasn't been updated for Win-7 (it is something of an orphan, and hasn't been updated much since it was originally developed back in the 90's, and now seems to be an afterthought by Avanquest). I have PowerDesk set with "Run as Administrator", and the UAC prompt shows up each time. I would like to be able to specify that UAC allow it to run without the prompt. I have Win-7-Home Premium rather than Win-7-Pro, so the WinXp virtual machine isn't an option.

By default, Windows will set task from Task Scheduler as Below Normal. You can take the following steps to modify the setting: Thanks ... very helpful.I had some problems using the Textpad programmer's editor. When I used it to change the priority value, I was getting animport errorTask Scheduler:The format of the task is not valid. The following error was reported: (1,2)::(which wasn't very helpful).I used the Notepad editor to change the priority value, and it imported ok.Thanks again!

Glad to hear it helpful. Enjoy Windows 7!

Enjoy Windows 7! Very much, so far. The Intel 160gb G2SSD arrived today, and I'm getting it setup.And another question .... when I start the created task, it seems to always start "behind" other windows on the desktop. My preference would be for it to start "in front" of all existing windows. Is there a way to do that? Some parameter?I looked through the many "Task Scheduler Schema Elements" at:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383611(VS.85).aspxbut I didn't see anything that seemed to apply.

This also works on Vista. I'm using this way since Vista Beta2, to start applications like RMClock at startup. @Robinson Zhang thanks for the tip with the priority :) "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

I followed the steps you suggested, but it still won't work. I get an icon on the desktop, but when I click on it, a DOS screen comes up for just a milli-second and then nothing happens? I kept clicking on it really fast, trying to read it. Something like "Error invalid/argument, "outlook 4" (what I named the task) Please type sch run Something like that? And i am entering "schtasks.exe /run /tn Outlook 4" exactly?

Try this: schtasks.exe /run /tn "Outlook 4" If a name contains spaces you have to use the " ". André"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

I get up to #10 just fine, then when I type in schtasks.exe/run/tn TaskName it tells me "The file cannot be ". By the way, I'm not actually typing in "TaskName", I type in my file name.

trying to go to windows vista to 7 never works out properly. Vista was crap. go straight from xp to 7 and it will work fine.

Hi Robinson, Ouch! Is that the preferred method? Maybe you could answer two things for me: a) Can you explain how setting a program to "run as administrator" causes UAC to pop-up? I would have expected the opposite. b) I'm not so concerned about specific programs. More that my OS is set up wrong. I have had several problems that could be attributed to incorrect security settings (Outlook, WMDC). I'm fearing that WET has messed up something and these problems will just keep occurring. A colleague of mine who also upgraded from XP to Win7 (but didn't use WET) has not had any problems. Rob

Out of interest, did you upgrade from XP using the Windows Easy Transfer utility? I re-installed everything from scratch ... I find it worthwhile to "scrap everything off to the bare metal" to have a cleaner system ... no crud from fouled up installs ... accumulated debris ... etc.Also, I hadn't heard of the WET (Windows Easy Transfer). I thought you could only go from Vista to Win-7. I'll investigate.

Thanks ... worked well. I'm glad I asked. <g>I've got a number of these programs, so I was hoping to simplify using a "template" to "clone" from. I triedto "Export" a task as MyFirstRunAsHighestPriorityTask.xml, modify the xml, and then Import MySecondRunAsHighestPriorityTask.xml ... However, this didn't work: I got an error about invalid xml format.I did find it was useful to change the icon for the new shortcut ... otherwise all had the same desktop icon.

Hi, Could you please offer more details on "I attempted to use TaskManager to increase the priority, but this wasn't allowed"?Thank you for your cooperation.

Could you please offer more details on "I attempted to use TaskManager to increase the priority, but this wasn't allowed"? > If I run TaskMgr as administrator, then I can change priority. But that seems like a clumsy work-around.