Dear all,
Please help me with the situation of allowing standard user to run everything. I'm using Windows 8.1, UAC on, I install Everything using account with administrator rights, I can run the program, but when I switch to non-admin account then run the program, UAC pop out and ask for administrator's password.
I did tried:
+Turn off UAC -> run Everything but nothing happen.
+Run Everything using "Run this program as Administrator" option in Compatibility tab
+Create Task Schedule to run Everything with highest privileges when user login
+Turn off "Run this program as administrator" in Option of Everything
None of them seem to work. Non admin user can't open everything without administrator rights
Please help me with a solution for non-admin user can run Everything.
Thank you.
I did select compatibility mode to Windows 7 like your guide but normal user still asked admin's password when running Everything.
Finally I add that user to admin group, let him install Everything then remove admin group, after restart he can run Everything as normal user.
Thanks.
'void's' suggestion of choosing the Compatibility tab and running under Windows 7 conditions didn't work. ...nor XP/SP3, Vista, etc.
For the past year or so I've been running Everything as an administrator because the program insisted on bringing up an admin UAC prompt. Nothing I did, ticking and unticking the Run As Admin control, changing the type of user the standard was, and back again, logging off and in, uninstalling and reinstalling, etc ...nothing, would let me run the (admin) service and the program itself as a standard user.
This leaves a gaping hole in security because it makes any program you run from search results load administrator permissions. Scary.
'command's' experience of tempor'rily adding a current, standard, user to the administrator's group, uninstalling and reinstalling Everything-Search solved my trouble too. As soon as it loaded successfully, without raising the UAC prompt, I removed the current user from the still-open user-group control program.
For those who don't know how to change a user's group membership, run compmgmt.msc as an administrator (include the .msc - MicroSoft Control) - Start, type compmgmt.msc, r-click, Run as... [choose your admin of pref'rence].
Then choose Local Users and Groups, choose Users, d-click the standard user in question, [second tab] add it to the administrators group (type that word in full, [Check Names]), Ok out.
The change takes effect immediately.
Keeping CompMgmt open, uninstall E'thing and reinstall it, ensuring that the E'thing background service is ticked; finish. DON'T let it run at the end of installation (a bad install practice, IMO).
Then test E'thing, making sure it's not running in any way as an administrator. If no UAC prompt appears, it's worked.
Remove the current user from the administrators group, close and finish.
HTH
[Windows 7 Pro/Ultimate]
[Other standard users on the machine as yet untested]
I had the same problem with my WIndows 10 Pro Admin account and Standard (non-Admin) account. Everything worked in Admin but not in the Standard User. Was using a 1.2 version and when updated to the 1.3.4.686 it worked fine in both.
I have experienced the same, and also tested with uninstalling, reinstalling, nothing....
At the end the problem was really easy:
- uninstall
- go to %LocalAppData%\Everything and delete all files (you will need admin privileges)
- go to %AppData%\Everything and delete all files (you will need admin privileges)
- install again, it should work without UAC if you install everything service
I think the problem is related to some update of Everything which cannot delete some preferences file in those AppData folders, but if they are empty it works with reinstalling.
I am currently using it on a Windows 10 with a User Limited account with no problems (no UAC prompt).