Fireworks CS3 WIll Not Start Up

Question

I have downloaded both the Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS3
trials and have been using them both for a couple of days without
any problems. Suddenly when starting up Fireworks (it starts to
load the program) then comes up with the following pop up message
box. "Your user privileges do not allow Fireworks to update your
registry. Launch and edit with Dreamweaver will not work properly
until Fireworks is launched while using Administrative privileges.
The pop up box then freezes and I am unable to close it down.
If I go into task manager and end program, it then finishes loading
and shut down.
I am running Vista Ultimate and my account is the admin
account and this has only just started to happen.
Any ideas anyone?

Answer 1

If you are unable/unwilling to allow the user to "run as administrator", there is another way.
A security concern could be that the file->open dialogue retains the given administrative rights of whatever account was used for "run as administrator". This can be exploited by the lesser user to gain access to folders otherwise restricted.
The most hassle free trick is to give the user full rights to the registry key, that Fireworks wants to write to.
(In the future, use ProcessMonitor from Microsoft to detect what a program tries to access and if it is successfull or not. That's how I found this registry key)
Add FULL rights on this registry key to "Everyone"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Fireworks.exe
That fixed the problem nicely for me.
Also new users will not be required to "run as administrator", as this is valid for all users.
True.. it gives the user full access to that specific registry key, but that is at least much less dangerous than giving full access to the entire system.
You can play around with lesser access than Full, but I will not spend more time figuring out the lowest level of access that will permit Fireworks to run.
Hope this trick works for you too
-Lord HellFire
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