ncaccess: is there a way to make this go away?
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Gaia,
Posted on: 2012-03-11 03:51 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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Originally Posted by seebs
So, I read up a bit on UAC, and once I understood it, I configured my game installs so that I do not need admin privs to run my games. This works. So I can click "no" when NCAccess requests admin privs, and everything's fine. Heck, I can replace NCAccess.exe with a no-op that doesn't do anything, and everything's still fine.
However, I still get a dialogue box telling me that "you'll need to accept ncaccess". Obviously, this is untrue. Untrue things upset me because they are incorrect, but I don't really think I want to get into altering NCLauncher to try to suppress this... Any suggestions? Anyone ever have communications with ncsoft which would lead you to believe that I might be able to communicate my question to their support people in under a month? (I mean, such that they respond to the question I asked, rather than some tenuously-related question.) |
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Basically unless you have disabled UAC or are running using the Administrator account anything which writes to a protected folder such as Program Files you will need to elevate privileges to do so. Even if you are running as admin you still need to accept so it can use the admin token rather than the standard token for that account.
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Which is one reason my Guides (listed below) talk about installing to a totally different directory than the default. It's just one less headache and most malware is focused on the protected directories so AV software shouldn't bug you either.
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Originally Posted by Gaia
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Basically unless you have disabled UAC or are running using the Administrator account anything which writes to a protected folder such as Program Files you will need to elevate privileges to do so. Even if you are running as admin you still need to accept so it can use the admin token rather than the standard token for that account. |
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Basically unless you have disabled UAC or are running using the Administrator account anything which writes to a protected folder such as Program Files you will need to elevate privileges to do so. Even if you are running as admin you still need to accept so it can use the admin token rather than the standard token for that account. |
I know that. I am totally aware of that. I have been running for about SIX MONTHS without allowing that access, BECAUSE CITY OF HEROES AND THE NCSOFT LAUNCHER ARE NOT IN A PROTECTED FOLDER.
Look, could you try again without making the assumption that I'm a complete moron who is unable to detect that his City of Heroes install hasn't successfully patched for six months?
Did you ever get a fix for this? I also installed the game to a non-protected area. I even went into the registry (regedt32) and modified the permissions on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\NCsoft to allow everyone read/write. I still get the NCAccess asking for an Admin Password.
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So, I read up a bit on UAC, and once I understood it, I configured my game installs so that I do not need admin privs to run my games. This works. So I can click "no" when NCAccess requests admin privs, and everything's fine. Heck, I can replace NCAccess.exe with a no-op that doesn't do anything, and everything's still fine.
However, I still get a dialogue box telling me that "you'll need to accept ncaccess".
Obviously, this is untrue. Untrue things upset me because they are incorrect, but I don't really think I want to get into altering NCLauncher to try to suppress this...
Any suggestions?
Anyone ever have communications with ncsoft which would lead you to believe that I might be able to communicate my question to their support people in under a month? (I mean, such that they respond to the question I asked, rather than some tenuously-related question.)