Installing Vortex...

[IsharaMeradin]

I am installing Vortex to give it a try now that it is in beta status. I am confronted with the following (see image). I have administrator rights because I have the only account for this computer. The pop up is confusing me as it seems to indicate that I will have problems with Vortex due to using an account with administrator rights. I do not have permission problems, I just have the only account on the computer. I would *think* that there would be no issue, but I'd rather be safe than sorry and ask what this really means. So what does this really mean and will I have issues being the only account and having admin rights as well?

 

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[HadToRegister]

I use an admin account on my computer as weel, but I pruposely picked "Run as administrator" and it messed up my install, because it wouldn't allow me to actually run the Mod Manager after that.
Just right click on the EXE and make sure "Run as administrator" isn't checked.

[Tannin42]

Even if your account is the only one on your windows system, that account is, by default, only in the administrator group, it still requires you to confirm the UAC dialog before doing anything that damage your system.

 

The fact that you're getting this dialog means that you're either running Vortex as administrator, meaning you had to confirm the UAC dialog when starting it and now everything Vortex does is run with admin rights - or you have disabled the UAC dialog which means every application on your system is run with admin rights at all times.

 

People running Vortex or other modding-related tools and then running into walls because their permissions are messed up account for the vast majority of bug reports I've received for both MO and Vortex and there is simply nothing we can do about it from our end, that's why it's telling you: Don't bother reporting permission problems with that setup.

 

If you want to hear my advice: If you did chose to run Vortex with admin rights, stop doing so. If you disabled the UAC dialog: that's really bad.

But the actual point is: Don't report permission errors (anything that includes the words "Access Denied", "Permission", "EPERM" or similar) to us, we can't help you with those. That dialog right there, that was the best help we could give you.