PowerChute, personal edition, windows 8.1. "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to your computer?"

[Anonymous user]

WHEN PowerChute starts on my windows 8.1 machine, I get a pop-up dialog asking, "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to your computer?".  How do I set security specific to PowerChute so that windows does not ask me that question every time I start it.

Thanks

[BillP]

Could you let us know which version of PowerChute Personal Edition you have installed? You can verify that under help->about in the software.

This pertains to the User Account Control settings in Windows which you'll find in the Control Panel that you can adjust.

I found this thread (it's about Windows 7 but still applies) ->  http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/irritating-windows-keep-popping-u...

And I thought we had made a change in the latest version of PowerChute..

[Anonymous user · Accepted solution]

Personal edition 3.0.2.  Assuming what you found works, the guy answering the question is telling you to turn off security checks.  I quote:  "Change User Account Control Settings link. Move the slider to a different position and you will see a description of the behavior."

He then says:  "NOTE: It is not recommended that you change UAC from the default settings. If you set UAC so that you don't see that pop up for a legitimate program, then anything will be able to access your system without your permission."

I believe both statements are true.  Although it may fix the issue, it is not the proper way to do it.

I do NOT have the PowerChute icon displayed on the taskbar and also have software update notifications turned off.  For me, I start the program manually, and this program is the only program I use that the windows security dialog pops up on.  So I am a bit confussed.

Thanks.