Run as administrator?

It's more a case of those posters hanging on to the old ways of doing things or are not aware of that change. I use Run As Administrator for absolutely every program I install (not just audio stuff) just because it doesn't hurt anything and it's easier than keeping track of what programs need it and which don't and/or going through the install process only to have it fail.
 
Next time I install Sonar I'll still use Run As Administrator out of habit.

Oh and this is just a guess but I'm assuming the advantage of using Run As Administrator is because it allows the program access to areas of the system that non admin profiles don't have. So if Sonar needed to get at a protected directory or something it can.
 
Just a guess though. Not a tech.

Well, I just re-installed my entire system and have never encountered this before, but every time I start Sonar now I get this:
 
"Sonar will now personalize your setings and copy blah blah blah..." message. I set Sonar to always runas administrator, given all permissions to the sonar related folders. It still pops up.
 
Anyone have any good suggestions?
 
sorry for hi-jacking the thread but I thought it was relevant to the topic.
 
Cheers!

ProjectM
Well, I just re-installed my entire system and have never encountered this before, but every time I start Sonar now I get this:
 
"Sonar will now personalize your setings and copy blah blah blah..." message. I set Sonar to always runas administrator, given all permissions to the sonar related folders. It still pops up.
 
Anyone have any good suggestions?
 
sorry for hi-jacking the thread but I thought it was relevant to the topic.
 
Cheers!

 
Never mind about hi-jacking :)
Actually, personalization is necessary (but only once unless you have some issue) after the installation. And I discovered this recently.....if you run Sonar as administrator, you can use the Ctrl key as part of a shortcut key to launch the program without bringing up this message, but if you disable the run as administrator check box and use a shortcut key that uses Ctrl to launch Sonar, it brings up the re-personalization message, which, according to Cakewalk is a normal behavior.

Jlien X

ProjectM
Well, I just re-installed my entire system and have never encountered this before, but every time I start Sonar now I get this:
 
"Sonar will now personalize your setings and copy blah blah blah..." message. I set Sonar to always runas administrator, given all permissions to the sonar related folders. It still pops up.
 
Anyone have any good suggestions?
 
sorry for hi-jacking the thread but I thought it was relevant to the topic.
 
Cheers!

 
Never mind about hi-jacking :)
Actually, personalization is necessary (but only once unless you have some issue) after the installation. And I discovered this recently.....if you run Sonar as administrator, you can use the Ctrl key as part of a shortcut key to launch the program without bringing up this message, but if you disable the run as administrator check box and use a shortcut key that uses Ctrl to launch Sonar, it brings up the re-personalization message, which, according to Cakewalk is a normal behavior.

hmm... I don't understand this but it sounds like I was probably wrong in my assessment. I have a lot of research to do before I do the overhaul. :-/

Cheers guys!
 
I'm celebrating my (approx) one million year aniversary as a Sonar user and have never had this issue before But UAC is off - first thing I do because I hate it. I OK through the "Blah Blah Blah..." dialogue and Sonar doesn't actually do anything when I click OK other than taking the box away and start up as normal. This have only showed up once after install previously - as expected (or is that a driver thing that usually pops up?). It's a complete re-install from scratch, which I do twice a year because I have a tendency to mess up my system and it's an old habbit from the XP days. Anyway, registry is fine. No new hardware and there's actually a lot less software installed. I don't think VSTs cause this anyway.
 
That Ctrl thing is something I will look into however. But don't know what it could do since I'm actually not launching with a hot key. Just the good old double click.

Well, before I recently upgraded to Win 7 64-bit I was always launching Sonar with Ctrl+F10 and it almost always launched the program without the re-personalization message (still don't know why it succeeded). Once in a while the message appeared and I didn't know why so I just ignored it. Now I'm on Win 7 64-bit and Ctrl+F10 ALWAYS brings up this re-personalizaiton message so I posted it in my recent thread and contacted tech support. The reason why CW ask you to hold CTRL+SHIFT and double-click on the SONAR Icon when you need to re-personalize the program is, I think, because most people run Sonar as administrator so holding just Ctrl and double-clicking the icon wouldn't bring up the message. If you don't know what I'm talking about (which is highly likely lol), uncheck the run as administrator option and hold just Ctrl and double-click the icon. The re-personalization message will appear.

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Deleted...a third time.  (So embarrassed I can't figure out how to delete posts).

I notice when running as an Administrator I couldn't drag audio files from the desktop (or a folder thereon) into Sonar.  Not a big deal, maybe, but I went back to running as a Commoner again...
 
[YES!!! This is what I was trying to say when the computer froze up and I kept whacking away at the "Submit" button]

Well, that was fun.  Now if I can figure out how to delete a post...

The whole Windows / user permissions / Administrator rights thing is a bit of a confusing mess.  For example, I was told by Sonic Core that I need to run the audio card software as Administrator, so I did so and Windows would always ask, "Do you wish to allow this program to change your computer blah" and I'd say yes (of course) and all was well.  Then I ran it as myself and all was still well.  Now when I run it as Administrator,  Windows doesn't even ask me "Do you wish to allow this program to change your computer blah" any more.  Along similarly confusing lines, it used to be that switching between myself and Administrator when running X2 caused X2 to do its "Personalising your user settings blah" thing every time.  Now I can run it as either and it no longer does this.
 
So, in summary, I'm going to make a coffee...
 
*glug*

I think what's happening here is that as you're not logging out and back in again as Administrator, the application is running as yourself as Administrator because doubtless you have Administrator rights which is why there's a difference, or no difference, or bananas, between running an application as yourself who has Administrator rights and running it as Administrator as yourself who has the Administrator rights.
 
*glug*
 
Bananas!

There is a difference between running in an administrator account and "Run As Administrator".
http://answers.microsoft....4f4d-b59e-4dd29d442ff1

scook
There is a difference between running in an administrator account and "Run As Administrator".http://answers.microsoft....4f4d-b59e-4dd29d442ff1

This is why I thought I might have misunderstood the explanation in the manual. So, does the manual mean that any level of user can now run Sonar but he still DOES need to run it as administrator? (i.e. right-click the icon and select Run As Administrator or enable the option on the Security tab of Property)