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Ever since I put Anvir Task Manager on my new Windows 7  64-bit machine, if I power off my computer, when I turn it on again the temp of the drive doesn't show up in the quick start area.

I have to go to the options page in the program where a long button shows up saying something about having to turn the feature on as adminsistrator for the temp to show up. I click the button and the temp shows up in the icon. Until I power down and restart again.

It's not a hard thing to do, just a little frustrating when I have to do it every time.

Anybody know if there's a way to make it show up without me having to click on the button every time?

I did uninstall it and re-download it from the AnVir site. The site says it will work on my system. But it's still doing it.

I also always log on my computer as admistrator.

Didn't work.

Tried opening as adminstrator using the desktop shortcut and then a second time using the shortcut in the "all programs" area when I clicked the start button in the lower left corner of the screen.

I did get an error message when I tried the one in the "all programs" area tho. The error message was just a whole bunch of letters run together that made no sense, to me anyway.

I tried your idea karen. Nothing changed when I restarted.

But you got me thinking, so I created a new shortcut, set it to start as administrator, and then put that shortcut into the startup folder. That didn't do any good.

So then I went opened Anvir's startup manager and right clicked on Anvir in that list. I put a check mark in the box that said start as administrator. Restart computer. I thought I'd found the answer but Anvir wouldn't start without me clicking on the desktop shortcut after everything else has loaded. What the heck??? I tried to go back and undo the check-box so at least it would start at bootup, but I wasn't given the option of doing that, it's grayed out.

At that point my frustration hit a peak (I'm on day 4 of my latest stop smoking attempt, frustration is running high for a lot of things right now) so I uninstalled the program all together. I didn't use it for much other than monitoring the HD temp and CPU usage anyway. On this new computer neither one of those things has been an issue.

I might reinstall it and try again later, but for now I think I'll just leave it uninstalled. (Knowing me, that could change by this afternoon tho…)

Thanks for your ideas folks!

Jyo: That sounds like a very similar issue.

I went to the AnVir support forum this afternoon. The options already posted are the things I already tried but that didn't work. So I left a post asking for any ideas. There haven't been any replies to that post yet, but if someone does reply and gives a way to fix it, I will post it here.

For me, having to make an adjustment to a program every time I start my computer makes that program one that I don't want. If it was a program that I really needed, that would be different.

I like how fast the warnings come up about a program trying to add it's self to the startup.

I've got WinPatrol/Plus installed too, to cover that task. WinPatrol warnings do take a bit longer to pop up tho. I don't like that so much, but what can I do? Other than using AnVir.

I did end up sending an email to AnVir Support asking about this issue. I received a reply a few minutes ago.

Here's their reply:

"Hello,

Unfortunately there are no other options to run a program with admin
rights on startup. This is limitation (feature?) of Windows 7.

AnVir Software" 

So,,, they designed and released their software with an issue that they knew would make the program work in a way that it isn't supposed to, and it's the fault of Windows 7?

Maybe I'm just to tired or grumpy, but that sounds like a lame excuse to me.

I'm glad that there are other options out there. I'm also very glad and thankful to Ashraf for giving me the opportunity to find out about the issue without having to pay a bunch of money for it.

Tried Ashraf's suggestion. (Thank you!)

Now when I start it, it starts as administrator. I get to see the temp like I wanted to.

The thing is, I can't make it start automatically when I start the computer.

It's in the startup folder, and I selected run at startup in the program's options.

It just doesn't like my computer.

Bye, bye Anvir. I give up.

Yup, made sure by checking later and it was there.

I've exchaned a total of 3 emails back and forth with that oh-so-helpful () support person at AnVir. Each time all the person would say is that the 2 methods on their forum should work. And then I told them that the methods didn't work. Then they told me they should work.

I finally gave up and told the rep that I'm done with this. I will not run their task manager on my computer or purchase anything from them, ever.

There has been no response from them since. But that's ok, really, I've had enough of this issue and have moved on.

Oh, the methods they suggest on their forum are exactly what I'd already tried thanks to you folk that offered your ideas here. Except Ashraf's that is. They don't mention that one at all.

The forum topic is at: http://www.anvir.com/forum/vie…..&t=196<http://www.anvir.com/forum/vie…..&t=196

Thanks for trying to help everybody!