Clarity and Platinum programs need needs to be run under Administrator account to function properly. There are two ways to set this up:1.
Solution for small-medium size businesses (no Windows domain controller)
Steps:
- Right click
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- the Clarity
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- icon on your desktop. Click Properties.
- Go to Compatibility tab. Under Privilege Level box, check "Run this program as administrator"
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- Select OK. The program will run as administrator from that point on.
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Solution for larger environments with domain controllers
a. Solution 1: Give your payroll user local administrator rights and do not forget to update your group policy settings (gpupdate).
b. Solution 2: Follow this article to run the programs as administrator without domain policy rules:
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This solution will create a record under Windows Vista or Windows 7 to run the program with Administrator rights without asking any questions to the user or requiring any access. To create a permanent record under Windows Vista or Windows 7, folow these stepsread below.
Steps:
- First download and install Application Compatibility Toolkit.
- Find the shortcut icon for Compatibility Administrator. Right click it and click Run as administrator.
- In the left hand pane, right-click on the database under Custom Databases and select Create New, and select Application Fix.
- Enter the name and other details of the application you want to alter behavior on and then browse to it to select it. Click Next.
- Click Next until you are in the Compatibility Fixes screen.
- On the Compatibility Fixes screen, find the item RunAsInvoker, and check it.
- Click Next and then Finish.
- Select File and Save As. Save the file as a app.SDB type file in a directory you will easily find it.
- Navigate to Start Menu, Right click Command Prompt and click Run as administrator.
- Run the following command at the prompt :sdbinst <path>\app.sdb
Where <path> is the location where you have saved the app.sdb file. For example, if you saved the .SDB file as app.sdb in the c:\Windows folder, the command should be like this:
sdbinst c:\windows\app.sdb - You should now get a confirmatory message.
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- Vista will no longer prompt you with the UAC everytime you open Clarity
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