MES requires admin privilege to run on Win 7 & 10

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rs3100
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MES requires admin privilege to run on Win 7 & 10

Post by rs3100 »

Hello,

I have been running MES on a Win XP laptop for quite a while, and it runs from a standard user account without elevation.

I have just installed Windows 7 on the machine as it is a minimum requirement for other software that I now need to run, but now MES prompts for the admin password via UAC every time I run it. I've also tried installing it on my Win 10 desktop to check the behaviour and I get the UAC prompt on that machine too.

Is that normal? I'm used to it just opening when I click on the MES icon, and the history page on the website states that the requirement to run as administrator on Vista and Windows 7 was fixed as of version 2.1 (ECUScan) in April 2010.

I'm using MES v4.4 registered with the CANtieCAR interface BTW.
s130
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Re: MES requires admin privilege to run on Win 7 & 10

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Has always been like this on Windows 7, 8.1 and 10.

Nothing to worry about.
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rs3100
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Re: MES requires admin privilege to run on Win 7 & 10

Post by rs3100 »

s130 wrote: 09 Aug 2019, 10:19 Has always been like this on Windows 7, 8.1 and 10.

Nothing to worry about.
Thank you :)
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