GoLive CS2 & Win7 - "Unknown Publisher"

This may be more of a Windows 7 issue than an Adobe/GoLive one...but I thought someone here might be able to help! Whenever I open GoLive CS2 in Windows 7, I get the User Account Control pop up window, asking me if  I want to allow the program "from an unknown publisher" to make changes to my computer. Is there any way to get this message to go away without lowering my User Account Control security setting? It's really annoying to see it pop up everytime I open GoLive!

Adobe started to digitally sign its apps in CS3 so any prior app can kick that warning about an unknown publisher.
A Google search leads to plenty of ways to minimize UAC warnings, all with various consequences.  I'm still experimenting myself.

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