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Stop notifications on Windows 7?

Darkfaith

By Darkfaith,
Posted on: 2009-12-20 11:33 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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Hello all,

Anybody know of a way to have Windows 7 ALWAYS trust/allow Cityofheroes.exe to run without the annoying pop-up to appear?

It says that the publisher is "unknown". How do I make it "known" so that I can run the game without having to agree to let it run?

Gotta love Microsoft.

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Renaming "COHUpdater.exe" to just plain "COH" will make that go away.

Of course, next time it updates... well, it'll be an ongoing process. I wouldn't argue with them just *renaming* the file officially if that's all it took.

 

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You can change the settings on your User Account Controls. I've got mine turned off, personally. Granted, I can't say if this would be a good idea for you or not. Given I've run Windows virus/malware and crap-ware free for several years I don't have much issue.

edit: If you use IE7 I just read it requires UAC for one of its security features. Actually, reading up on it, I wish Microsoft would make it less annoying (maybe add a user-created exceptions list?), because its actually a darn good feature (good idea, not so good execution).

 

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Originally Posted by Psyte View Post
You can change the settings on your User Account Controls. I've got mine turned off, personally. Granted, I can't say if this would be a good idea for you or not. Given I've run Windows virus/malware and crap-ware free for several years I don't have much issue.

edit: If you use IE7 I just read it requires UAC for one of its security features. Actually, reading up on it, I wish Microsoft would make it less annoying (maybe add a user-created exceptions list?), because its actually a darn good feature (good idea, not so good execution).
Also, if you use gadgets - at least in beta/RC - and turn UAC off, it turns off gadgets. The few I use, I find useful enough not to turn it all the way off.

I'm familiar with how annoying it is in Vista, having worked on others machines and had to "confirm" something almost continually. It's not so bad on Win7, at the second lowest setting. Though I do agree on the exceptions list - I was hoping for something similar. (OTOH, I'm sure it'd take less than a week for a malware writer to create something with a little script that puts itself on said list.)

With that setting, I have to confirm almost nothing - installs, running COH... that's about it on win7.

 

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I'm running the RC and I can use gadgets. I ignore them (guess I haven't found the right ones). Only reason I'm not on Win7 proper is because I haven't had time to bother backing everything up, clearing off, reinstalling Windows XP and upgrading to Windows 7.

 

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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
Also, if you use gadgets - at least in beta/RC - and turn UAC off, it turns off gadgets. The few I use, I find useful enough not to turn it all the way off.

I'm familiar with how annoying it is in Vista, having worked on others machines and had to "confirm" something almost continually. It's not so bad on Win7, at the second lowest setting. Though I do agree on the exceptions list - I was hoping for something similar. (OTOH, I'm sure it'd take less than a week for a malware writer to create something with a little script that puts itself on said list.)

With that setting, I have to confirm almost nothing - installs, running COH... that's about it on win7.
They did end up fixing the gadgets/UAC thing shortly before release...I believe it was in one of the August or September updates, but I could be wrong. All I remember was seeing it mentioned that it was fixed.


 

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First off, I want to thank you all for answering.

So, there's no harm in just renaming cohupdater.exe to COH? I thought it had to have the .exe extension to run?

I, too, am disappointed/surprised they don't allow for an option... "Trust this program in the future" or such.

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Originally Posted by Soundtrack View Post
First off, I want to thank you all for answering.

So, there's no harm in just renaming cohupdater.exe to COH? I thought it had to have the .exe extension to run?

I, too, am disappointed/surprised they don't allow for an option... "Trust this program in the future" or such.
It'd be nice, certainly. But over the years most of the Windows problems I've seen were user-related. Too trusting, too willing to download any ol' thing, too eager to engage in high-risk activity, etc.

You know those phishing emails that claim a prince or someone in Nigeria wants you to have millions of dollars of their money? Guess what! My mother and brother both work with a lady who's husband fell for that, sadly. Hell, one of my friends almost fell for a phishing email because he was super-tired one night and was going through his emails @_@

I'd love an exceptions list. I'm just afraid that most people would make everything an exception.

 

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Originally Posted by Psyte View Post
It'd be nice, certainly. But over the years most of the Windows problems I've seen were user-related. Too trusting, too willing to download any ol' thing, too eager to engage in high-risk activity, etc.

You know those phishing emails that claim a prince or someone in Nigeria wants you to have millions of dollars of their money? Guess what! My mother and brother both work with a lady who's husband fell for that, sadly. Hell, one of my friends almost fell for a phishing email because he was super-tired one night and was going through his emails @_@

I'd love an exceptions list. I'm just afraid that most people would make everything an exception.
Sadly, I believe you're right.

I found one tweak to try to allow COHUpdater.exe to be trusted, but the tweak didn't work...

So I still wonder... will renaming "cohupdater.exe" to just "COH" cause any problems down the road?

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Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
Yes. If the updater itself is updated, it won't know what to do.

And I *think* you have to revert to the correctly named updater for patches.
Ah, okay, that makes sense. Thanks, Zombie Man, for answering.

*sigh* I guess I'll just have to deal with the prompt. There are more frustrating things in life than this, eh?

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What you need to realize is really City Of was written before the UAC, back when everyone tended to have full administrative rights.

I run into the UAC popping on me on any of the older software I run on Win 7 because I need to run them with Admin rights for them to work properly.

Newer software that is written without needing admin level rights works wothout the UAC popping up.

I personally have had a couple clients that the UAC showed something trying to run and they were ablet to prevent getting infected. Since then I would rather make an extra click than not.

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Thanks, Shecky and I wholeheartedly agree... better safe than sorry!

I guess I just wish there was a setting where I can tell Windows, "Hey look...this program is okay... he's with me. " or such.

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