I have Vista on the company laptop 
Every time I run a portable app it asks for confirmation that I trust the app and have run it before. Is there any way to register the apps on my pendrive so that Vista will just run them without this message ?
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Vista always requests permission to run apps
May 17, 2007 - 3:01am
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Vista always requests permission to run apps
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Weird. I use vista but only an very occasional program from here does that.
cowsay Moo
cowthink 'Dude, why are you staring at me.'
Is your company laptop locked down, is there some company software that monitors what you run, it may be part of a security policy your company has created on the vista installation.
I had a similar issue on one machine I was using and it was fine on another, turned out to be part of company security policies added on top of windows
Phil Jobling, UK
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Phil Jobling, UK
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"search button, what search button ? doh!"
I haven't used Vista much, but I work in a corporate environment, so I'd bet a nickel that this is an optional security setting that your IT people have put in place. If so, disabling this option should fix the problem, so if you have a buddy in IT (who won't care if you are running Portable Apps) or someone that knows Vista security well, see if you have permission to turn this off.
Also, it's most likely that registering the apps takes administrator-level privileges.
Good luck!
Solanus, the East Wind
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
I get this on my Company issue XP laptop too. Not with the Portable Apps, but with the PeopleSoft Application Designer application. The comment is:
"The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?" The software was installed on the client's network by my company and is published by Oracle. Just another Win foul up.
We're a small company and so far as I know there's no security policy like this in place. The Vista installation is what the laptop came with - I know because they gave it to me still boxed.
I have admin on the laptop so I'll check the security settings. It may be something really dumb but as I'm new to Vista (and the company guinea-pig for the new OS and Office2007) I just assumed it was yet another annoying "feature" that I had to "adapt" to and ignore. Maybe not...
a man with three buttocks
That was it. A Vista security setting.
Now I'm happy (apart from having to use Vista and Office 2007 ;-))
a man with three buttocks
I get that as well and it's a personal computer.
How bad is 2007? I still use 1997 and it works with Vista except I when I click on the paper clip guy for help, it says that "this program was designed for use with earlier versions of windows and no help can be offered" I thought the help was part of the software itself and not windows since 97 worked fine with XP and it didn't want to search online for basic help like page numbering or something like that; it found it locally.
can you please give any hints, how you solved it finally!
Thanks,
Franz
You need to have admin rights--- go to User Accounts, select the account to change, and Un-Check "User Account Control".
If you have it turned on, it will ask for confirmation (sometimes TWICE) for lots of things.
The most irritating for me was it told me I was not authorized to save a document to a folder inside the Programs folder. However, Vista would let me copy that same document from another location into the Programs folder.
I'm back to XP (by accident actually) and happier for it.
I found out (with google) that this is a systematic issue of Portable Apps, where the launcher script does not contain the statement
RequestExecutionLevel user ; for Vista
(to tell Vista, that the Portable App can be run in user mode). I corrected this last night and since then Vista does not complain any longer!
Franz
Hi Franz...
Sorry to resurrect this but being almost new (slightly second-hand) to PortableApps and really new to Vista please can you explain to a complete noodle the steps required to correct the problem?
This is a very old topic about development of launchers. All the launchers for all the apps from PortableApps.com now include this fix (have for some time) and all run without the UAC prompt on Vista. If you are having some sort of issue with a specific app, please post a new topic.
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