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hairy1

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#41850 24-Sep-2009 09:15

Hi All,

I have been running Windows 7 RC build 7100 for a while with Google Chrome. All has been OK up until a couple of days ago. Now every time I start google chrome UAC asks me if I want Google Chrome to make changes to the system.

I have uninstalled Google Chrome and reinstalled. I have tried running it as an administrator. I have assigned Chrome administrator privileges. Is there anything else I can do?

Chrome is the only application affected. Is there a conspiracy theory that Windows doesn't want me to run Chrome?

Cheers,

Matt.

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#257988 24-Sep-2009 09:17

Have you installed any add-in? Is this the Chrome released version or their daily beta builds?

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#257994 24-Sep-2009 09:29

All sorted. Chrome needs to be started as a standard user, not administrator. If started with administrator privileges it triggers UAC. This seems kind of backwards!

Cheers!

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#258055 24-Sep-2009 13:00

Couldn't you have turned UAC off with the slider??

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#258059 24-Sep-2009 13:12

Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

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#258063 24-Sep-2009 13:23

I didn't want to turn off UAC just to run chrome... And Microsoft don't recommend turning it off! ;-)

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#258152 24-Sep-2009 19:18

bazzer: Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Depends what your using it for. My W7 test machine all have it turned off..

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