Windows 7 prompts me that city of heroes is a security risk
By
Adelante,
Posted on: 2011-03-01 19:55 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Likely you are running CoH at a resolution that's either higher or lower than your regular desktop resolution.|
Originally Posted by Adelante
Everytime I start CoH, I get prompted from windows 7 "do you want to allow city of heroes to change your computer settings?". How can I fix this?
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As such, User Account Control is bugging you with "Are you REALLYREALLYREALLY ExtraSuperSpecial SURE you wanna do this?"
You have four options.
- Kick up/down your game resolution so that it matches your desktop resolution.
- Kick up/down your desktop resolution so that it matches your game resolution.
- Turn off User Account Control.
- Ignore the issue and just click YES every time it asks.
Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.
The City of Heroes launcher is named CoHUpdater.exe. Windows Vista and Windows 7 look at the name and think "ah, this wants to update something; it should run as an administrator!", thinking itself rather clever. This is what causes the dialog box.
There are ways to get around this, ways to run CoH directly as a non-administrator, but Issue 20 will fix it. They're converting CoH to use the NCSoft Launcher, a more modern program which doesn't ask for admin rights when they aren't needed.
If you happen to have installed CoH within your Program Files folder, the NCSoft Launcher will give you the option to take full ownership of the CoH directory, ensuring that admin rights are not required at all. It will see the end of all UAC popups.
Necrobond - 50 BS/Inv Scrapper made in I1
Rickar - 50 Bots/FF Mastermind
Anti-Muon - 42 Warshade
Ivory Sicarius - 45 Crab Spider
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Or you can just install CoX outside of "program files" to avoid it.
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Sadly, you still get the UAC prompt just because it has 'updater' in the name. |
Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU
Or you can just install CoX outside of "program files" to avoid it.
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An odd quirk is how the NCSoft Launcher will still ask to take full ownership of the CoH directory if you have installed it outside of Program Files, or even on another hard drive.
Necrobond - 50 BS/Inv Scrapper made in I1
Rickar - 50 Bots/FF Mastermind
Anti-Muon - 42 Warshade
Ivory Sicarius - 45 Crab Spider
Aber ja, nat�rlich Hans nass ist, er steht unter einem Wasserfall.
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Some people have worked around that simply by renaming it: CoHStarter.exe or something instead.
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Originally Posted by Necrotron
Sadly, you still get the UAC prompt just because it has 'updater' in the name.
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You yanks can do that. We euro-mans have to call it CoHUpdater.eu.exe, or it launches in US mode.|
Originally Posted by Master-Blade
Some people have worked around that simply by renaming it: CoHStarter.exe or something instead.
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Not that it will matter for long, but I get around it by launching cityofheroes.exe with the -project EUCoH switch.
Necrobond - 50 BS/Inv Scrapper made in I1
Rickar - 50 Bots/FF Mastermind
Anti-Muon - 42 Warshade
Ivory Sicarius - 45 Crab Spider
Aber ja, nat�rlich Hans nass ist, er steht unter einem Wasserfall.
Everytime I start CoH, I get prompted from windows 7 "do you want to allow city of heroes to change your computer settings?". How can I fix this?