BadHobbitz

Long story short: Run as admin gives higher a privilege than even being an admin, so try it, always. Long Story: Unfortunately, (well actually fortunately but annoying as hell) Running a program as an Administrator (right click, run as admin) is VERY different from simply executing a program while logged in with an account with admin rights. Doesn't matter if you got freakin' Enterprise Admin/Domain admin (if you're in a domain) or just local admin non-domain it runs it differently. Basically, its another 'security-feature' from M$ (although i kinda see why..it does help keep windows stable, at least its not that damn UAC) Anyways. Basically stuff is being executed all the time (N. Korean leaders) using your logged in credentials in the background, and windows will always protect itself from any code I guess it determines as malicious to it's OS, Kernal, file system, etc. and won't allow it access. Even if you're an administrator. So running as administrator says 'Hey, you m$ effer! I'm an effing Human! And I own this damn machine and I want this to proggie to run without any of your damn security obstacles!' (at least that's how I envision saying it, you know, with feeling )