MaW wrote:[color=blue]
> We all know Vista can detect that some applications need to be elevated to
> work properly. City of Heroes and its updater are one such - Vista assumes
> they'll be needing write access to the game folder in case of patches,
> screenshots, or the game lock file (all of which go into the game folder, bad
> coding I know but I can't do anything about that). The thing is, my City of
> Heroes folder is on a drive and in a place and with settings so that anybody
> can write to it, unrestricted. It shouldn't actually need administrative
> privileges to run.
>
> So is there any way I can tell Vista it's wrong, and not to run them as
> administrator like it wants to?[/color]

My guess is that the application is properly coded, and informs Vista
that it needs to be running as administrator in order to work correctly.

Alun Harford