Computer wanter to make changes - Do I allow this by entering password?

Box comes up on Desktop asking 'Computer wants to make changes - enter password'. Do I ignore?

If you have no idea why any app is asking for admin privileges, then ignore. Then try to find out what prompted that box to appear in the first place.
If you just started the installation of a new app, then it's not uncommon for many to ask for the admin password. Such apps need access to install items to the main Library folder in order to function, which is why the box appears. The OS is asking for your permission to allow the installer access to a protected part of the system. If you trust the app, then enter your password. If it's from a torrent, or other illegal source, I wouldn't trust it for a second. If it appeared out of nowhere, definitely do not trust it.

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Mac OS X wants to make changes. Why is this randomly showing up?

This just started yesterday, while I'm working with other applications. I'm not making system changes nor renaming folders. It doesn't say what changes, but my login window changed from blank boxes (my preference) to a list of names.
What's going on here?
Jim Ward

What do you have in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items?
Also post your Console log from Applications/Utilities/Console around the time of the last or next event.

Finder wants to make changes (copying instead of moving on desktop)

i am getting a "finder wants to make changes" prompt that requires me to enter my password when MOVING data from a folder to another folder on my MacPro /desktop/. it is BOTH asking for a prompt and COPYING the data instead of MOVING it.
i have my MacBookPro mounted (or whatever) as i moved some files to the MBP recently but does anyone know what the hey is going on with this?
i am trying to put out some annoying fires with the Mac OS and this is not a welcome development.
THANKS

i am getting a "finder wants to make changes" prompt that requires me to enter my password when MOVING data from a folder to another folder on my MacPro /desktop/. it is BOTH asking for a prompt and COPYING the data instead of MOVING it.
i have my MacBookPro mounted (or whatever) as i moved some files to the MBP recently but does anyone know what the hey is going on with this?
i am trying to put out some annoying fires with the Mac OS and this is not a welcome development.
THANKS

I have a mac computer. I am trying to install flash player but get the message "install adobe flash player wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this." I do not use a password to open the computer.

I have a mac computer that uses no password. When installing flash player I get the message "Install adobe flash player wants to make changes Type your password to allow this. I can't get past this message.

Hi,
To change your password you will need to open System Preferences, then open Users & Groups, click on Change Password. Change your password to a temporary one, then when you have finished you do the same procedure to change it back, by typing in the temp password then leaving the new password blank. Hope this helps.

Opening ReaderX causes "This program wants to make changes to your computer" warning.

I'm using Windows7.
Previous Adobe Reader versions worked fine on this computer; and when I first updated to Adobe Reader X it seemed to run correctly, until recently. Now everytime I try to open a .pdf file or the Reader X application, the screen goes black briefly and a "User Account Control" warning box pops-up with the message, "This program wants to make changes to your computer."
I have uninstalled Reader X, downloaded new install file from Adobe.com and re-installed the program, but it still does this everytime. I've designated Reader as the default program for .pdf files.
Can anyone tell me what's causing this to happen and/or what I can do to remedy the problem?

I am having the same problem!
Ever since I installed the latest update to Adobe Reader 10.1.3 (around the end of March) AR brings up the "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes..." whenever I open the reader. NO OTHER applications do this except those that really need this permission.
I have not changed any UACs and in reading Pat's suggestion on changing the UACs above, I would only want to make changes if they could apply only to the Adobe Reader program.
It seems to me that something in the recent update changed Reader to cause this alert.
I sure would like to get AR to run like it used to.
Thx for your help.

I just started getting the error message below - when I drag a file to TRASH, I get the message "Finder wants to make changes. Type in your password to allow this. Why ? and how to to stop this request ?

I just started getting the error message below, when I drag a file to TRASH, I get the message "Finder wants to make changes. Type in your password to allow this." Why ? and how to to stop this request ?

There should be nothing native to the OS X which would ask for a password
or other information on a restart, unless accompanied by the traditional login
box with your user name.
There are adware or marginal products that could be called malware (bad)
that would impose their presence and some items that could have been
downloaded by accident or through some corrupted free software site; of
those some could ask for and gain permission to go through your Mac
and maybe even run in the background to do other nefarious misdeeds.
You could see if startup in SafeBoot allows you access past that the Completer.
Since I don't have a pile of helpful article links on how to resolve various issues
I'd be looking them up one way or another.
There are some helpful items in the site http://thesafemac.com - see Tech Guides
listed (adware, malware, & performance) plus a link to the adwaremedic page.
Also, Apple support has a helpful page on how to remove adware and other bits:
•Remove unwanted adware that displays pop-up ads and graphics on your Mac - Apple Support
Hopefully this helps somewhat.
Good luck & happy computing!

When trying to delete files, I get the following message, 'Finder Wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.'

I'm running Mac OS X Version 10.7.4 on my iMac and am suddenly unable to simply move files to the trash.
Instead, I get the following message: 'Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.'
When I do enter my password, the file does not enter the Trash but seems to disappear.
I tried to find ways to revert to previous settings that allowed me to move files to the trash, but had trouble doing so.
How can I get my iMac to run normally?
Cheers!

I have CS6 in a disk and I can't install it,I get a window with my name and asking for a pass word,the window reads like this:set up wants to make changes type PW to allow this.I type my adobe PW and it doesn't work.I am stake in that step.

What can I do?I can't install CS6 in a disk.I get a window reading:set up wants to make changes type PW to allow this.
Type my Adobe PW and is not that.This is frustrating!!!!Downloading, Installing, Setting Up

Hello ozne,
as a first step please have a look at these "General infos about the Adobe Account"
https://www.adobe.com/account.html and http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/find-serial-number.html.
Did you purchase your product from these firms like Amazon? If yes, this is not a serial number, only a code with which you can request a serial number from Adobe. Please have a look at http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/find-serial-number.html. (Start here: How did you purchase your product?)
The following part, so I just see at least, ceased to exist on my Adobe website, everything takes place in the link from above. I leave it as an info yet, it might still fit for you. For this purpose, please click your way through to your Adobe Store and find the button "Get Serial Number". Fill in the form and after a while you will get the real serial number.
Good luck!
Hans-Günter

Why itunes 10.5 64 bit wont install on my 64bit hp probook ? when i run it my user account control asks me that do you want the following program from unknown purblisher to make changes on you on this computer? program name :itunes 64setup.exe purblishe

why itunes 10.5 64 bit wont install on my 64bit hp probook ? when i run it my user account control asks me that do you want the following program from unknown purblisher to make changes on you on this computer?
program name :itunes 64setup.exe
purblisher:unknow
file location: hard drive on this computer when i click yes nothing happens
aditional ateps iv taken, uninstalled all itunes including quick time,banjour mobile updates ,everthing that has to do with apple products.went into window regestry and i dint find anything that has to do with apple in software bar
restarted my laptop several times, put the setup on a External USB but still nothing happens ,blowsed all most all sites on goggle no where iv seen this problem ,pliz who can help?

why itunes 10.5 64 bit wont install on my 64bit hp probook ? when i run it my user account control asks me that do you want the following program from unknown purblisher to make changes on you on this computer?
program name :itunes 64setup.exe
purblisher:unknow
file location: hard drive on this computer when i click yes nothing happens
aditional ateps iv taken, uninstalled all itunes including quick time,banjour mobile updates ,everthing that has to do with apple products.went into window regestry and i dint find anything that has to do with apple in software bar
restarted my laptop several times, put the setup on a External USB but still nothing happens ,blowsed all most all sites on goggle no where iv seen this problem ,pliz who can help?

I loaded Mac OS X v10.7 Lion yesterday. Everything's running fine, except for a simple problem. Any time I want to copy a file, JPEG, etc., I am prompted "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this." I don't want this!! Is there a way

I loaded Mac OS X v10.7 Lion yesterday. Everything’s running fine, except for a simple problem. Any time I want to copy a file, JPEG, etc., I am prompted “Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.” I don’t want this!! Is there a way to unlock “Finder” or rid this process?

Back up all data.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. You can demote it back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Triple-click the following line to select it. Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:20 ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ 2> /dev/null
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2
Boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
resetpassword
That's one word, all lower case, with no spaces. Then press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

"Adobe Acrobat Pro [or whatever] wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."

No doubt this is the wrong forum for this question, but there really does not appear to be "the" appropriate forum.
Every time I open Adobe Acrobat Pro, which I just installed, as well as other Adobe products, such as Photoshop, which I've used for a while, a dialog appears with the message, "Adobe Acrobat Pro [or whatever] wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."
I searched in the forums here and saw that other users have had similar problems, but didn't find a solution. It obviously is annoying to have to enter my password every time I open Adobe products. Could someone tell me what is going on and how I can fix it?
My OS is Mac Lion.
Thank you.

Do you have Acrobat 9?
If yes, please try following steps:
1. Repair your current Acrobat installation
a. Launch Acrobat
b. Go to Help->Repair Acrobat Installation
c. Check all the components and press Continue
Missing components will be repaired
2. Now, update your Acrobat.
Go to Help->Check for updates
Update your Acrobat to latest version i.e. 952
3. Again , Launch Acrobat. Acrobat would ask credentials for the first time.
4. Quit Acrobat and launch Acorbat again. Acrobat should not ask for credentials now and for all subsequent launches . Please reply if you see a different behavior.

"Adobe Acrobat Pro wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this"

… that’s the dialogue window I get every time I launch Acrobat Pro 9.0.0 (on Mac OS 10.9.4), or double-click on a .pdf file to open it.
Acrobat Pro opens and works OK once I’ve typed in my password, but I really don’t think I should need to type my password every time I want to use Acrobat - how can I fix it?
Thanks for any help.

Hi Thomas,
This screen is asking for your Computer Password to make the necessary changes. It's Mac mechanism to authenticate whether you are the Admin user or not.
Try deleting the user caches and that should fix the issue : http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/08/delete-user-caches-in-mac-os-x/
You might also want to refer to the thread : Repeated 'mac OS X wants to make changes' prompt | Apple Support Communities
Regards,
Rave

Website Blocker wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.

Every time my MAC Pro starts up there is the pop-up window "Website Blocker wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."
I'm running Yosemite, but the problem also existed in Maverick. This happens even before any application is started.
If I type my password the window closes but will appear again at the next start up.
Did anybody see this problem before?

I have exactly the same problem. It keeps asking for the admin password whenever I delete a file. Annoying! And guess what , after typing in the PW and deleting the file, the trash can is still empty! The deleted files just disappeared!!
So I checked my permissions, everything looked fine (i have perfect read and write rights), but i still used the Disk Utility to repair the permission, but it didn't solve the problem.
I read some article online, saying that BatChmod can crack it. I downloaded the file and tried it, well, it worked 50%, I now see the deleted files sitting in the trash can, but I still have to type in PW to delete files.....
This problem just came up today out of the blue, I'm not using any mobile disk or network disk by the way...
So anyone have any idea how to fix this annoying thingy?
Thanks in advance!
Nikki

Desktop to Trash Problem: "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."

Suddenly today I get a dialog box stating "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this," whenever I attempt to drag a file from the desktop into the Trash on the dock. How can I stop this and return to a normal function of dragging desktop files into the trash? Thanks in advance.

Back up all data now.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:20 ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ 2> /dev/null
Be sure to select the whole line by triple-clicking anywhere in it. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. You don't need to post the warning. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2
Boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select Utilities ▹ Terminal from the menu bar. A text window opens.
In the Terminal window, type this:
resetpassword
That's one word with no spaces. Then press return. A Reset Password window opens. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select  ▹ Restart from the menu bar.

Finder wants to make changes. type your password to allow this

Hi everyone,
OS Type : Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3
Application : Finder ?
Context : The Mac is connected to our Active Directory and there are some network shares also connected to the Mac.
Issue : The following message pop-ups randomly when the user tries to rename/create a folder/file on a mapped disk.
Message : Finder wants to make changes. Types your password to allow this.
I Insist this problem is completly random and to solve that, you need to restart the Mac and then the exact same folder can be renamed,etc...
Thanks for any suggestions.

Boot to your recovery partition or boot media (hold option while booting).
Open 'Reset Password' utility
Choose the affected user name from the drop down menu.
In the bottom-right corner, click the 'Reset' button to set your ACL permissions.
Restart.
Now see if the issue is resolved. Should be.

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