Tutorial on how to make CFP3 work nicely with Vista and UAC.

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[uhohkimee]

Heres a newbie question... If I only have 1 acct(admin) on my laptop do I still need to do it?

[Dennis2]

Heres a newbie question... If I only have 1 acct(admin) on my laptop do I still need to do it?

Yes you do on Vista even though you are in admin account a lot of process do not run with admin rights so you do as the thread suggest or you right click (Run as Adminstrator) when you need admin rights or disable UAC.
Dennis

[GSi-R]

I have followed this thread, but get this when i try to manually update.

[Info-Sec]

I have followed this thread, but get this when i try to manually update.

Huh.  Well I can assure you thats just an error and malware DID NOT hijack your session.  I have heard about various update errors, and this seems familiar.  Im sure its just an error.

[GSi-R]

Your right, This is what i had to do.

Close CFP

Right click on CFP in your program list, Start>COMODO>CFP(right click and run as Admin)

Then right click on the CFP icon in your task bar
Disable Firewall
Right click on the CFP again
Disable Defense+

Then right click on CFP once more, and open it

Turn off automatic updates

Right click on CFP for the final time, this time, open it.

Goto Misc, then manually update.

All should go well then, and update should download fine.

Once downloaded, and installed, activate CFP again, job done.!

[Star Shadow]

GSi-R: If you followed my guide, then you would not need to do all those steps in your last post. CFP _is_ running with admin properties. Check to make sure that you checked "Run with Highest Privileges" in the Task Scheduler setup for CFP. Automatic updates and manual ones work for me.

[jdbell63]

Hey there Star Shadow.  Thanks much for the tutorial.  I would rather follow something like this than wait forever for development to fix the problem.  Going to reboot and try it out now.
Thanks

[capatt]

I think my solution is a bit simpler.  I have UAC turned ON, but under Local Security Policy I have it set to automatically elevate without prompting for Admin level accounts, and to disable the secure desktop.  You get most of the UAC advantages (protected mode in IE7, and file virtualization), without the UAC nags which we click through anyway, right?  Yes, security is a bit lower, but if you run with D+, you're no less protected.  Task Scheduler is unnecessary and there are no messages about startups being blocked after boot.

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