hi everyone as this is my first thread
I run Windows 7 on a Sony Vaio, and never had issues.
recently I had this situation where some software doesn't run properly on my main account (admin) but only in a secondary account I had created
the software is installed without problems, but then it fails to run properly
as an example I have a small car speed detector which has a software to download journeys. it doesn't run as it should on the main account no matter what I try. similarly i bought a Sony Bloggie and its portable software as well as the main software that came with it don't work properly, but they do on the other account, so I (annoyingly) have to switch users, and run the software there, and then go back to my main account
I suspect some anti-virus or other stuff from my main account is "blocking" things somehow. I also had a number of instances where I get alerts like "windows cannot open this file for security reasons". I have tried to change security settings, firewall settings but nothing worked.
there was a general security level that required admin status to lower, yet although I obviously am admin, windows wouldn't allow me to do.
any suggestion?
ps. I have a lot of other programs that still work fine, like iTunes etc etc, but I am noticing that most of the recent ones will not work as they should...
quite frustrating
Fed
I run Windows 7 on a Sony Vaio, and never had issues.
recently I had this situation where some software doesn't run properly on my main account (admin) but only in a secondary account I had created
the software is installed without problems, but then it fails to run properly
as an example I have a small car speed detector which has a software to download journeys. it doesn't run as it should on the main account no matter what I try. similarly i bought a Sony Bloggie and its portable software as well as the main software that came with it don't work properly, but they do on the other account, so I (annoyingly) have to switch users, and run the software there, and then go back to my main account
I suspect some anti-virus or other stuff from my main account is "blocking" things somehow. I also had a number of instances where I get alerts like "windows cannot open this file for security reasons". I have tried to change security settings, firewall settings but nothing worked.
there was a general security level that required admin status to lower, yet although I obviously am admin, windows wouldn't allow me to do.
any suggestion?
ps. I have a lot of other programs that still work fine, like iTunes etc etc, but I am noticing that most of the recent ones will not work as they should...
quite frustrating
Fed
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