Captivate 5 No Effects

Greetings
I have upgraded to Catpivate 5 and the "effects" timeline and button are missing. I have worked with my IT department and have figured out that when my IT department logs on my machine remotely with “full administrator” rights, the effects work as they should. When we log back in with my credentials, the effects no longer work. I have been granted full administrator rights on my machine, and the effects are still not working?????
Please help!

Hello,
On Win7 and Vista it is necessary to start Captivate as an administrator. You do not need full Administrator rights for that, just use the right-click menu and choose 'Run as administrator'. You can set this also in the Properties to be always the case, use the button Advanced.
Lilybiri

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