Windows 7 Ultimate: User Access Control
 

When launching Hoster 4.11 a 'UAC is not turned off' message as per the .gif attachment appears.

I confirm that UAC is turned off and all other MTU recommended ‘Vista’ settings have been implemented. I have even tried uninstalling and reinstalling the latest Hoster 4.11 version freshly downloaded from MTUs website today, without success. A Windows 7 Ultimate issue? Thanks in advance for your advice.

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Asus N50VC Laptop
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz, 2534 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.01 GB
HD 320GB
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 211, 5/03/2009
SMBIOS Version 2.5

Haven't heard of this before so may be an "Ultimate" problem. Does it show as off in the window behind the message window as it says?

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate without any problems at all. You must drag the slider to the very bottom, so that it is set to Never Notify me. Then you must Reboot your computer once you do this for it to take affect.

Bryan and Dale - Thanks for the advice. Before initially posting here I'd already determined how to disable UAC ... and yes I did reboot afterwards. When that didn't work I also disabled UAC with Regedit in Windows 7 as per the instructions below:

Disable UAC with Regedit in Windows 7
1. Run Registry Editor (RegEdit) by typing regedit at command prompt or at startmenu->run
2. Locate following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software \Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
3. Locate the following REG_DWORD value: EnableLUA
4. Set the value of EnableLUA to 0.
Optional step to suppress UAC permission prompt dialog,
1. Locate the following REG_DWORD value: ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin
2. Set the value of ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin to 0 (optional).
Now Exit from Registry Editor and Restart the computer.

Regedit didn't work either (and yes I've checked again for the umpteenth time and confirm that the slider is set at 'Never Notify'.

I know that Windows 7 Ultimate also has a 'Windows XP Mode' but I'd prefer not to have to go down that road unless I have to.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

Try re-installing Hoster now that you have all that set and see if you still get the message. All those settings should be done before installation of Hoster any way. May be a flag that gets set if you haven't done it and it doesn't reset except during installation.
When you installed Hoster, did you check the box that said something like I have checked all the settings to run Hoster? There should be Yes and No boxes.

Dale,

I have again retried everything, including uninstalling and reinstalling Hoster; re-enabling UAC with Hoster uninstalled and rebooting; disabling UAC with Hoster uninstalled and rebooting; reinstalling my original version of 3.21 and rebooting; reinstalling the 4.11 upgrade and rebooting.

I'd like to try uninstalling and reinstalling Hoster one final time, how do I remove all traces of Hoster from the Windows registry after uninstalling?

Thanks again.

Easy to do. When you run the installation program, on the personal information page there is a check box at the bottom to clear all registry entries.

Yes, I had enabled the check box 'Click this if you are reinstalling Hoster and you wish to clear all saved settings'. It has not resolved the Hoster UAC error message.

This is very frustrating. I don't have Windows 7, so I can't think of anything else. Submit a Support Ticket Email and MTU support can maybe get with you on this to look at it. If he can't find it, then the programmers will need to look and see if something isn't resetting this.

Will do. Thanks for your help and time Dale.

Fixed
 

Since raising this issue, I decided to run Hoster in XP SP3 Compatibility Mode because it got rid of the annoying error message.

However, today after hearing back from MTU Support that there must be another program on my PC causing the problem, I decided to revert back to launching Hoster in normal mode and to reinstate the UAC default mode. Sure enough, when launching Hoster I got both the UAC permission to launch Hoster.exe message and the Hoster 'UAC is not turned off' message.

I then closed Hoster and again turned off UAC. This time when turning off UAC it launched the UAC permission message. I don't recall seeing this before on any of the other occasions when I turned off UAC.

Long story short, I acknowledged the UAC ‘permission’ message and then shut down my PC. Upon rebooting and re-launching Hoster the 'UAC is not turned off' message has gone/vanished - thank goodness. Go figure!

Whether this ‘fix’ is coincidental to my also running other Windows 7 troubleshooting wizards I don’t know. I’m just happy that it’s all fixed. It definitely was not a Hoster issue; there must have been a rogue windows or hardware setting on my PC following my upgrading the OS from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Ultimate.

Thanks again for your help in particular Dale.

Your welcome.