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Athena0803
2010-02-05, 01:40
I am unable to fully immunize with my new Win 7 machine. Help tells me to right-click the program icon and select Run as Administrator - but this instruction is for Vista and doesn't appear to be an option in Win 7. Can anyone help please?

spybotsandra
2010-02-05, 09:41
Hello,

This is also for windows 7.
Probably you have deactivated the UAC (User Account Control)?
Please edit your registry:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe
ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

This link (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-or-disable-uac-from-the-windows-vista-command-line/) should also help.

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

Athena0803
2010-02-05, 16:53
I have fixed the problem. I eventually managed to find the Run as Administrator way of launching Spybot so now I am fully immunized! Thanks for your reply.