UAC Warnings for Standard User

[jrocha]

Greetings all,

I just finish building my new desktop machine using an ASUS motherboard (P8P67 WS Revolution). I installed 64bit Windows 7, and I have to admit I am a total Win7 newbie. While I use it a work, I don't feel like I really know how to use it.

Anyway, as part of my installation, I installed the ASUS Utility, AI Suite II (All In-on Suite). This utility allows me to check the motherboard and CPU temperatures, and can be used to overclock the CPU, etc.

When I log on to the system as myself, administrator, everything works fine. However, If I log on as any of my children, who are setup to have "standard" accounts, then I have several errors and user access requests as illustrated below.

1. Upon log on an error dialog appears stating:
   

   QFan Help
   
   Access violation at address 00000000. Read of address 00000000.
   [ok]

2. A blinking UAC access violation shield appears that states information such as:
   

   Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?
   Digi + VRM Help
   ....
   C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\AI Suite II\DIGI+ VRM\FRMHelp.exe

   And asks for the admin password to run it.
   
   
3. Another Blinking UAC shield for the program:
   

   TurboVHelp
   
   "C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\AI Suite II\TurboVHelper.exe" -init

   And asks for the admin password to run it.
   
   
4. Another Blinking UAC shield for the program:
   

   EPUHelp
   
   "C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\AI Suite II\EPU\EPUHelp.exe" -init

   And asks for the admin password to run it.
   
   
5. Another Blinking UAC shield for the program:
   

   AI Suite II
   "C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\AI Suite II\AI Suite II.exe" -hide

   And asks for the admin password to run it.

As I indicated earlier these "issues" do not occur with my account, just the childrens "standard" account. Moreover, I tested by enabling the "Guest" account and the problem doesn't exist there. So it feels like there must be some sort of startup "information" that is somehow appearing in the standard accounts that is causing this problems.

I tried looking in the "startup" folder and I don't see anything at all. I don't even know how these applications are actually being started.

Does anyone know how I can stop these errors and UAC warnings, short of removing the ASUS utilities?

I have also posted to the ASUS forum, but I suspect this is probably an issue with my lack of understanding of Windows 7 and their account configuration.

Thanks in advance for your help,

-=John

[EzyStvy]

When you type in the admin password is everything OK?

Control Panel-> UAC where you can adjust the UAC settings.

[jrocha]

Hello,

Yes. When I enter the admin password then the program starts fine.

However, I don't want the programs starting at all for the standard accounts. Its sort of a pain in the butt for them to have to click ok to cancel the error dialog, and then to click [no] through the 5 UAC warnings that pop up every time they log on.

[EzyStvy]

Remove the shortcut from their profile...Or move it from all users to just your profile.

[glc]

Steve, I don't think it's that simple.

I tried looking in the "startup" folder and I don't see anything at all. I don't even know how these applications are actually being started.

This is probably going to involve the registry. It may also involve services.

[Panama Red]

Silly question - why do you NEED that program? OC'ing the new hardware is a waste of time IMO. If it was me, I'd save the headaches and uninstall that Asus utility.

[jrocha]

I figured it out.

I started just doing some registry exploration, looking for Suite. I encounted a quite a few hits, some for AI Suite II some for other things. But one caught my eye for tasks.

That sparked a memory about scheduling tasks. So I went to:
Start->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Task Scheduler

Exploring this new tool I found a folder for ASUS that had two entries. One for ASUS AI Suite II Execute, and the other for ASUS DigiVRM Help, and it was triggered to run at log on of any user.

I was able to change this to trigger on log on of only my admin user. A quick test showed it was working as desired now. It doesn't run for any other users except me.

This also showed me a pretty cool tool, the task scheduler. I found a lot of interesting stuff that is scheudled to run at different times on my newly installed system.

I didn't change anything else, but it was neat to see these other capabilitires.