Ascent with Non Administrator account
The information provided is for help with Commtest Instruments products:
• Ascent® 2008 software and later
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PROBLEM
Can I run Ascent with a non-administrator account? When I use a standard non-administrator Windows account I receive an error message: "Access to the registry key ..."
Is there anything I can do about this?
SOLUTION
Ascent may be run without a Windows administrator account, by making some security permission changes, however administrator permissions are required to install Ascent and the first time the license is registered (Excluding Dongles)
Note: As administrator permissions are required you may need to ask your IT support staff to make these changes.
Note: UAC (User Account Control) must be disabled on computers using the Windows 7 and Vista operating systems. Click here for instructions on disabling UAC.
ASCENT 2009 and later
- Log into Windows using an administrator level account.
- Install Ascent and the Ascent License.
- Browse to C:\Program Files\Commtest using Windows Explorer (Right-click the Start button and select Explore)
- Right-click the Ascent folder and select Properties.
- Press the Security tab (*)
- Click Users from the 'Group or user names:' list
- Under the 'Permissions for Users' list check the Allow checkbox beside 'Full Control'. Click OK. (If you are asked if you wish to propagate the new permissions to all sub-folders, do so)
- The remaining steps are not required if using a USB Dongle License.
- Open the Windows Registry Editor (Start>Run...>REGEDIT)
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\CLLC
- Right-click the CLLC folder and select Permissions.
- Select Users and tick 'Full Control' - Allow.
- Click OK
Ascent will now function correctly under a non-administrator Windows account.
Ascent 2008 and 2008 R2
- Complete the steps for Ascent 2009 in addition to the following steps.
- Open the Windows Registry Editor (Start>Run...>REGEDIT)
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors\
- Right-click the Monitors folder and select Permissions.
- Select Users and tick 'Full Control' - Allow.
- Click OK
Ascent will now function correctly under a non-administrator Windows account.
(*) If no Security tab is displayed, click cancel. In Windows Explorer use the main menu to navigate to Tools>Folder Options>View. Untick the Use simple file sharing checkbox then click OK. The Security tab should now be available.
Last updated: March 2011