Resolved "Do you want to allow the following program?"

I've recently purchased a new laptop with Windows7 (64-bit) Home Premium installed. I'm very pleased with Win7, but one thing in particular is annoying me. For example, I have CCleaner set to run on startup but find that I get a message "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?" when it attempts to do so. No option to 'allow this program always'. I've been searching around for a solution but have not found one which does the job satisfactorily. Some say turn UAC off entirely but I'm reluctant to do that.

Today I went into the CCleaner's .exe's 'Compatibility Mode' and checked 'Run as Administrator'. Interestingly enough, afterwards CCleaner seemed to run at startup as a result, but when I attempt to run it manually from the desktop icon I am again asked for my permission.

Does anyone have any experience of stopping these requests for permission?

Thank you.

 

I would have thought that the option to 'Always allow this program' should be with the pop-up. CCleaner and many other safe and familiar programs shouldn't need permission every time they run - or should they?

 

This seems like an excellent way around the problem. Thank you. However, it says:

This technique works only if your account is already a member of the Administrators group. If you’ve set yourself up with a Standard account, you can’t use this trick.

How might I know if my account is a member of the Administrators group, and if it's not how do I become one?

I successfully created the scheduled task and when I clicked on the shortcut it flashed for a moment but didn't open CCleaner. I mustn't be a member of the Administrators group.

 

You're correct. I am the Administrator.

Is a reboot required before that scheduled task is effective?

 

I did the following:
Opened Task Scheduler
Actions>Create Task (not Basic)
Give task name & description
Run only when user is logged on
Run with highest privileges
Action>new>browse to program .exe
Conditions: untick all
Settings: Allow task to run on demand. Untick others,
Create shortcut to command: schtasks/run /tn "task_name "

I clicked on the shortcut created. A box flashed for a moment, supposedly opening the program ....but it didn't. I clicked on the normal desktop shortcut and the "Would you like to..." popup appeared.

So, back to the drawing board.

 

Thank you. I followed the instructions precisely. The program I was tasking was CCleaner and I chose ccleaner64.exe - my system is 64-bit - in the CCleaner program folder. There was a ccleaner.exe there too.

I then clicked on the shortcut created. A box flashed for a moment, supposedly opening the program ....but it didn't. I clicked on the normal desktop shortcut and the "Do you want to allow..." popup appeared.

Back to the blackboard.

 

Good news! I installed this handy utlity which allowed me to open any specific program without being bothered by UAC messages asking for permission. To a list just add the link to a program's .exe and the job's done.

By the way, this link is for UAC Trust version 2.0 (not yet available) but you can download version 1.0 below the bottom of this article. It works!

http://www.itknowledge24.com/

 

I've been using the UAC Trust version 1 mentioned above and have just uninstalled it due to unreliability.