Can someone explain the difference in these two desktop icons?

[jadinolf]

This is far from an earth shattering problem but I did some research and did not find an answer.

These icons are from my favorite address book. I 'm guessing it is a 16 bit program but I'm not really sure.

I have set it up on TWO Windows 7 computers to be compatible with Windows XP SP3 and it seems to work fine.

I have also set it up to be administrator.

Question is - why does one icon have a shield on it and one doesn't?

Would appreciate an answer.

Thanks.

 

[kbrady1979]

Traditionally, the shield on a desktop icon meant to run of modify that particular application would require elevated privileges. It won't go away by running as administrator, and in fact, it may have appeared AFTER you chose run as administrator. The other might just be a type of shortcut. Try this, on the one without a shield, right click, go to properties, shortcut, advanced, and "run as admin" and see if a shield appears on it as well.

 

[Brink]

Hello Joseph,

The shield overlay of course indicates that the program requires administrator approval (UAC prompt) before running elevated.

Did you have UAC disabled on the PC that doesn't have the UAC shield overlay on the icon? If so, then that would be why since you have it set to "Run as administrator".

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[kbrady1979]

Also, do you get the UAC dialog box when you click on either icon?

 

[jadinolf]

Traditionally, the shield on a desktop icon meant to run of modify that particular application would require elevated privileges. It won't go away by running as administrator, and in fact, it may have appeared AFTER you chose run as administrator. The other might just be a type of shortcut. Try this, on the one without a shield, right click, go to properties, shortcut, advanced, and "run as admin" and see if a shield appears on it as well.

Thanks kbrady1979

The one without the shield has already been set up as run as Administrator and looks the same.

Anyway, as I said, it is not urgent. I'm just curious.

 

[kbrady1979]

I googled it just a minute ago and quite a few people were asking this same thing......or were asking how to get rid of it. There is a way to get rid of it, but it's not the simplest of tasks it doesn't look like.

 

[jadinolf]

I googled it just a minute ago and quite a few people were asking this same thing......or were asking how to get rid of it. There is a way to get rid of it, but it's not the simplest of tasks it doesn't look like.

Thanks

There are lots of reasons to avoid losing sleep.

That is not one of them.

I really appreciate your taking the time to post here.

 

[kbrady1979]

I googled it just a minute ago and quite a few people were asking this same thing......or were asking how to get rid of it. There is a way to get rid of it, but it's not the simplest of tasks it doesn't look like.

Thanks

There are lots of reasons to avoid losing sleep.

That is not one of them.

I really appreciate your taking the time to post here.

No problem! And problems are problems, whether they are serious or not......most of us here have a certain level of OCD when it comes to figuring things out!

Also, our Admin and resident tutorial wizard Brink has a tutorial that covers this exact issue if I'm not mistaken. I think I ran across it awhile back, and I'm pretty sure this was what it was over...I very well could be wrong though as it was some time ago.

 

[jadinolf]

I googled it just a minute ago and quite a few people were asking this same thing......or were asking how to get rid of it. There is a way to get rid of it, but it's not the simplest of tasks it doesn't look like.

Thanks

There are lots of reasons to avoid losing sleep.

That is not one of them.

I really appreciate your taking the time to post here.

No problem! And problems are problems, whether they are serious or not......most of us here have a certain level of OCD when it comes to figuring things out!

Also, our Admin and resident tutorial wizard Brink has a tutorial that covers this exact issue if I'm not mistaken. I think I ran across it awhile back, and I'm pretty sure this was what it was over...I very well could be wrong though as it was some time ago.

Thanks

I'll take a look around.

 

[Brink]

Joseph,

Do you have UAC disabled on the PC that doesn't have the UAC shield overlay on the icon?

 

[FuturDreamz]

Did you install it in compatibility mode on one computer and not the other?


And may I ask why you use that addressbook program? I'm just wondering because I consider anything that old to be a security risk.

 

[jadinolf]

Joseph,

Do you have UAC disabled on the PC that doesn't have the UAC shield overlay on the icon?

Nope

 

[jadinolf]

It's really OK, guys.

You have more important things to do.

Let me try pushing the slider all the way up.

edit: no difference

 

[Brink]

Odd, you might see if toggling it to set "run as administrator" in compatibility mode off, apply, turn back on, apply, then run the program to get a UAC prompt may add the shield.

 

[jadinolf]

No difference Brink.

Let's call it a night. No biggie.

Thanks everyone.

 

[jadinolf]

Did you install it in compatibility mode on one computer and not the other?


And may I ask why you use that addressbook program? I'm just wondering because I consider anything that old to be a security risk.

It is installed exactly the same on both computers EXCEPT the one without the shield was changed to compatibility mode later.

I'm using the address book because it was the only one that I could find that I liked. I used it with XP for quite a while and I am not looking forward to typing in hundreds of addresses again.

I'm using the free version of this. http://www.freebyte.com/addressbook

 

[Brink]

No difference Brink.

Let's call it a night. No biggie.

Thanks everyone.

LOL, yeah I know I can get obsessive about some issues.

One last thing to try is to rebuild the icon cache.

 

[jadinolf]

No difference Brink.

Let's call it a night. No biggie.

Thanks everyone.

LOL, yeah I know I can get obsessive about some issues.

One last thing to try is to rebuild the icon cache.

Brink, no one is more obsessive than me but we have to weigh the importance sometimes.

I tried to give you a thumbs up for your contribution but the system told me to hold off and spread the thanks around.

So, I did.

Thanks.

 

[Brink]

No worries mate. Hopefully we'll get it to show eventually for you.

You wouldn't happen to be logged in to the built-in Administrator account on the PC without the UAC shield would you?

 

[jadinolf]

No worries mate. Hopefully we'll get it to show eventually for you.

You wouldn't happen to be logged in to the built-in Administrator account on the PC without the UAC shield would you?

Brink, I don't understand the term. Try again. Remember, I am still learnin' Win 7.