.ShazaM. Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 I am used to play Call Of Duty 4 on my 7100 Build by going to the iw3mp.exe file, Righ-Clicking on it and choosing "Run As Administrator" because the game requires that in order to run its PnkBstr client normally. Ever since I had upgraded from 7100 to 7232 I lost that option in my context menu. I did modify the registry to add the "Take Ownership" option. Now, I don't know if this issue is with the build itself or the Take Ownership reg script screwing up. But is there a way to reset things and check or just resummon the "Run As Administrator" option? Screenshot: Need your help. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briangw Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I'm guessing the "Take Ownership" may have overridden it? Maybe uninstall that and see if it comes back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killez Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I'm guessing the "Take Ownership" may have overridden it?Maybe uninstall that and see if it comes back. Did you disable UAC? if so reenable it and you will be able to run as admin again. Also if you right click hit properties and check the box to run this program as administrator you will be able to just click it and go without the extra step of right clicking and selecting it everytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I upgraded once from 7000 to 7042 (or whatever that build was) and lost my New -> Text Document button......everything else was still there (I could still right click to create folders and word docs, etc) I just couldn't create new .txt documents. That being said I would say its possible the upgrade caused it to disappear......adding things like creating new text documents to the context menu is somewhat easy, but I'm not sure how you would go about adding the Run as Administrator back in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.ShazaM. Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 That is weird man. I'm gonna try to do a System Restore. I'm thinking about going back to Vista for now until RTM comes out. I'm getting sick of dealing with this. I did reenable UAC, I uninstalled Take Ownership and still no go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killez Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 That is weird man. I'm gonna try to do a System Restore. I'm thinking about going back to Vista for now until RTM comes out. I'm getting sick of dealing with this. I did reenable UAC, I uninstalled Take Ownership and still no go. safest way is to either do a dual boot or virtual with windows 7 that is how mine is setup just in case a problem like this or others pops up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
code.kliu.org Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I'm guessing the "Take Ownership" may have overridden it? Probably. The easy (and wrong) way to add an elevated verb to an object in the shell is to use the "runas" verb. That's the easy way because whatever you set "runas" to be will get elevation without any work from you. That's also the wrong way because verbs are unique and there can only be one "runas" verb. And uninstalling may not necessarily restore things if the verb was overwritten (depends on whether the installer was courteous enough to remember what it overwrote). (This is why any elevation items added to a shell context menu must be done with a shell extension.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted June 24, 2009 Supervisor Share Posted June 24, 2009 This may help: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=499870 Also, I suggest that if you always run that program as an admin, right click on the executable, select Properties. Under the Compatibility tab, tick Run this program as an administrator. Then hit OK. That way, you can launch as admin by double-clicking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
code.kliu.org Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 This may help:https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=499870 Thanks for that source; now that I've seen how this "Take Ownership" works, I can change my "probably" to a "definitely". This has nothing to do w/ Vista vs. W7, nor is this the fault of Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SQ1 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 What do you have installed? Your right-click menu does not seem original, for instance you have icons on rename, delete and properties... that's not a feature from windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
random_n Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Try holding shift? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
code.kliu.org Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 What do you have installed? Your right-click menu does not seem original, for instance you have icons on rename, delete and properties... that's not a feature from windows. Um, it's already been established in this thread that the problem was caused by the misuse of an ill-conceived registry tweak and that, as indicated by post #8, he needs to download the registry script to restore what he had stomped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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