administrator rights

[jsonger47]

I get this when I try to install Vortex

"Vortex is not intended to be run as administrator! "

then it goes on about permission problems .

I have no problems with any other programs on my pc

any advice or tips on how to fix this oh I am on win10

 

HadToRegister:

I get this from install file the exe not from a shortcut

[HadToRegister]

Right click on the Vortex shortcut, pick PROPERTIES---------->COMPATIBILITY------------->Uncheck "Run this program as an administrator"

[hiznik]

I've just installed Vortex and received this same message on launch ("Vortex is not intended to be run as administrator!" etc.), and the "run this program as an administrator" is NOT checked. I've never seen this kind of message on any other software installation.

[Guest deleted34304850]

have you disabled UAC? The reason you don't see this on other software installs is probably because they don't give a s#*! whether they're admin or not, whereas vortex specifically checks because it's telling you - don't run me as admin.

[hiznik]

Thanks for the reply!

Yes, I think so. I searched on-line to learn about how to turn off UAC (and noted why it's a bad idea) so I checked a couple things on my PC Win 7 Home box anyway. The Control Panel's User Account Control Settings is already set to "Never Notify" and in the registry,

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

the EnableLUA setting is already set to "0", which I think means it's turned off. Maybe the solution is going back to using the Nexus Mod Manager.

[Guest deleted34304850]

thats certainly an option. the best option would be to enable UAC and not run everything as admin, but it's your system and you can do what you want.

[HadToRegister]

The solution is turn UAC back ON, so that your system isn't wide open to malware getting installed without notifying you.

But, it sounds like you want to do everything the hard way, so, go for it.

We can only give advice for people who will actually follow it, it sounds like you just want to ignore that advice and do things your own way, so have at it.

[hiznik]

Wow. Anyway I came here for advice since I know nothing about this stuff. I misunderstood the comment above asking about UAC being disabled. I don't know why or when that disabling happened on this PC and so I thought, okay, maybe that's what it needed to be. Totally missed it. Plus I didn't make the connection about UAC and things getting run as an administrator. I'm sorry if my misinterpretation and ignorance seemed like arrogance. Not what I was going for at all.

[HadToRegister]

Wow. Anyway I came here for advice since I know nothing about this stuff. I misunderstood the comment above asking about UAC being disabled. I don't know why or when that disabling happened on this PC and so I thought, okay, maybe that's what it needed to be. Totally missed it. Plus I didn't make the connection about UAC and things getting run as an administrator. I'm sorry if my misinterpretation and ignorance seemed like arrogance. Not what I was going for at all.

 

 

OK, no problem, in the mean time, have you turned UAC back on?

[ShelLuser]

I know I'm responding to a dated thread but still wanted to comment due to some very bad advice above...

 

I get this when I try to install Vortex

"Vortex is not intended to be run as administrator! "

then it goes on about permission problems .

 

Where are the games you're trying to mod installed? And where are you trying to set up your downloads and staging folders (check the Vortex settings).

 

Because this is my theory: you're using the C drive, and thus also try to mod games which are located in c:\program files (or the (x86) variant of course) and that can cause problems because Windows considers the C drive a system drive, thus it protects everything from interference.

 

Just try this example yourself if you want proof:

• Press Win-R ('run program') and enter 'cmd' (no quotes).
• Use this command: cd \program files. (you can press tab after 'progra' to make things easier on you).
• Then use: notepad test.txt.
• Enter some random text, press control-s to save and watch how it redirects you to your desktop (windows 10).

That's because the program files folder is restricted on C, even if you run Windows as an admin. As a result programs which try to 'do' something here are often automatically elevated to admin privileges. And that's just the thing which Vortex doesn't want to cope with (and rightfully so!).

 

If this somewhat describes your situation then the solution is quite easy (sort off): you will need to give yourself access permissions within those game folders. Run "whoami" from that same commandline program to see your username and remember it.

 

Then use your file explorer to go to the program folder (on C) which you want to mod. Right click and check its properties. You'll find a tab 'security' (or something close enough) in there. Probably the 3rd tab. Click 'edit' or 'change' and then use the "add" option. Enter your own username in the field below, and once you added that select it and then use the "full access" checkbox to give your account full permission within the games folder.

 

That should get rid of all the admin problems.

 

Warning: Don't try these procedures on drives other than C because one way or the other it could create a (small) security risk. Once again: this is assuming that your games got installed on C.