Elevated Program Shortcut without UAC Prompt - Create

mac173 said:

With Avast, you are not opening the program from the system tray, you are bringing up a minimized program. When you drop the Avast window, it does not close, it minimizes to the system tray, so its a single click to maximize again.

That is also why the shortcut did not work. It cannot open up two sessions of Avast.

Thank you, mac, I appreciate your reply!

That seems logical enough. What confused me is that the tray icon would not load at startup, (which it did load @ startup on my XP machines, hence the ques. "is this new in 7")) only after I opened the UI w/ the shortcut & then minimzed to tray.

Unfortunately this shortcut "trick" for lack of a better term has opened a PLETHORA of problems using Avast in Win 7 x64, starting with this one (posted @ Avast forum) ...now I find that I cannot scan a singular file or folder (using the right-click "Scan with Avast... context menu) which is also explained by your reply: "...It cannot open up two sessions of Avast"

Looks like I have two choices:
1) abandon this elevated program shortcut & live with the UAC prompt at startup as described in my topic @ Avast. No one there has provided ANY assistance, I stumbled on a temporary registry hack to disable the UAC prompt @ startup & they told me to mark the thread as "resolved" so they could close it out.

WTF?????

2) abandon Avast & find another (FREE) AV---NOT AVG, M$$E OR ESPECIALLY NORTON that won't be such a hassle running in Win 7.

Any suggestions, anyone?
Thanks!!

I just want to add this. I was having some problems on my laptop, and was advised to stop using Avast (some conflicts since resolved). On the advise of one of the people here, I installed Windows Security Essentials.

It works fine. I have had no problems, and when I did get an infected file it found it and blocked it with no problem. It even found a trojan that Avast had missed.

I am always skeptical of Microsoft, but MSE is working for me.

P.S. No UAC prompts from MSE.

Greg S said:

Brink said:

Hello Greg,

Yes, at step 20 under the Shortcut tab in the shortcut's properties, you can select Minimized in the drop down menu to the left of Run and click OK to stop it.

Ah, but it's not a shortcut. The task name was added to Local Machine Run in the registry. HD Tune wouldn't auto start without it

Figured this one out by accident. Anything that needs auto starting via HKLM run or HKCU run needs some tweaking done in the scheduled task. The trigger for the task has to be set for "At log on". When this is done, the elevated task runs at startup/logon and without the cmd popup window in addition too, no startup entry needed in the registry.

Task - Create to Run a Program at Startup and Log On