Program installed in Program Files requires elevation?

[nigelmercier]

I have a program that wanted to install in a document folder

I have installed it in Program Files, but it requires elevation or it produces errors when running. I know I can tick the Run As ... box in the shortcut, but is there a better way, such as taking ownership of the install folder?

 

[DavidE]

You could try using this tutorial to see if it helps with this program.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/193743-elevated-program-shortcut-create-standard-user.html

 

[Alejandro85]

My guess is that you used a portable version of the program instead of a "normal" one.
If so, it's normal that you're getting such errors. Portables often are made to write settings/data to the program folder, together with the main exe. Since users have read/write access to documents folders, it runs ok there, but normally users have read-only access to program files, so it may be failing when writing its stuff there.

The best solution I can think of is to figure out why and what it's being written and instruct the program to go to a document folder/appdata for those instead.
A less elegant and more insecure solution would be to grant all users read/write permission to the folder where the program sits, so it can write at will there whatever it needs.

 

[nigelmercier]

Thanks for the replies. The problem with relying on elevation is that it doesn't work when the program is launched by opening a file. It's actually a C compiler, so this happens a lot!

It's not a portable program; I guess the developers just decided it was easier to install in a document folder, rather than mess around with UAC etc.

I will try setting the R/W properties for the install folder.

 

[nigelmercier]

I will try setting the R/W properties for the install folder.

Seems to have worked, thanks for the replies.