Why are you running Sonar as administrator?

mrdrwest
Why are you running Sonar as administrator?

To be honest I'm not 100% sure, but I do know that I've had problems with some VST's in the past (since forgotten about) which were solved by running as administrator. I think Dimension Pro might have been one of them. 

Sandmännchen
That is OS related. This solution http://www.altofran.com/2013/07/solving-windows-8-drag-n-drop-issue.html
should work in most cases.

Interesting. It's a pity you can't specify exceptions to all of this UAC stuff. 

The only issue I've had is registering Dim Pro and Rapture. Once done with that you don't need admin.
 
Also if you need Pentagon away from admin here is the info:
http://forum.cakewalk.com...onar-852-m1945155.aspx
 
Thanks...

i was gonna suggest internet options and setting em to default.. which what I've done in the past for other programs that start acting funny with regard to windows drag / drop etc generally. thats in win7 though.. did take me ages to figure it out though and it was by pure chance..
 
windows being bigger / behind the task bar is another annoyance I get with turbo lister, but i digress.
 
 
 

I would not say this is [Solved], because we are at an impasse:

1. Run X3e as administrator does not allow Drag & Drop audio files from Windows Explorer.
2. Run X3e as NOT administrator does not allow some external VST plugins to work.

The solution would be to allow Drag & Drop even with Sonar as an administrator mode.

rogeriodec
I would not say this is [Solved], because we are at an impasse:

1. Run X3e as administrator does not allow Drag & Drop audio files from Windows Explorer.
2. Run X3e as NOT administrator does not allow some external VST plugins to work.

The solution would be to allow Drag & Drop even with Sonar as an administrator mode.

What I do is run as administrator, and make the Desktop a content location in the browser. It's easier to drag from the browser than minimize or resize SONAR and drag from the desktop, or open up an external drive or whatever.

The only time I have had to run any CW product as administrator is the continued un-fixed DP registration bug.
 
Other than that, there should be NO reason to run as administrator, which affects all kinds of windows settings, and can result in many annoyances.
 

rogeriodec
I would not say this is [Solved], because we are at an impasse:

1. Run X3e as administrator does not allow Drag & Drop audio files from Windows Explorer.
2. Run X3e as NOT administrator does not allow some external VST plugins to work.

The solution would be to allow Drag & Drop even with Sonar as an administrator mode.

 

rogeriodec
I would not say this is [Solved], because we are at an impasse:
Run X3e as administrator does not allow Drag & Drop audio files from Windows Explorer.
Run X3e as NOT administrator does not allow some external VST plugins to work.
The solution would be to allow Drag & Drop even with Sonar as an administrator mode.

 
This is not a Sonar issue, it is a question of Windows not allowing a process with a lower security level to pass control to a process of higher security level. Allowing such behavior is dangerous since malware could then elevate its control over a process running as administrator, thus defeating the protection designed into UAC. When you drag and drop you are using Windows Explorer (WE) which is always started at the level of the logged in user. When you run a program as administrator, you are running it with privileges not even granted to a user who is logged in as a member of the Administrators Group. The grown up way of dealing with this intelligent Windows limitation is to use Sonar's File>Open dialog or the Sonar Media Browser to open the file.
 
It is possible to open Windows Explorer using "run as administrator" and files will drag from that particular window to a program with elevated privileges, but any new window spawned from that elevated window will not retain elevated privileges-so a search result window popping up from a search initiated within an elevated WE window will not work. You can also install another file explorer utility and start that with "run as administrator." I have been able to drag and drop from FreeCommander XE started "run as administrator," to elevated programs, but frankly only as an exercise. I almost never drag and drop anything to a program, and only occasionally move files that way.
 
Finally it is possible to stop the Windows Explorer process and restart it with administrator privileges, but that is just plain crazy, and unless you are running only a single account member of the administrators group (already a bad idea from a security standpoint) is likely to cause consternation.

I think I definitely found the solution : DISABLE UAC! 
 
Just follow the first post of this: http://www.eightforums.com/system-security/5160-tutorial-how-make-windows-8-understand-you-administrator.html
 
This not only solves the problem of this thread, but also all that hassle of getting forcing Windows to run a lot of applications as an administrator.