Hi
Should Cubase be run with Administrator on or off ?
I switched off the administrator in the compatibility part of the properties for the Cubase 14 file so that I can drag files into Cubase. from windows explorer.
Now, with administrator off some projects crash Cubase when I close them,
So, should it be on or off ?
Off.
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In general you should never ever install any application as Administrator in Windows, that is a bad thing to do and a high risk security issue.
Windows Installer will usually ask for admin permissions during installation if they are needed for various purposes. This is called “User Account Control”
If you really installed as Administrator you have no other choice than running it in that mode, because all permissions are now given to this account, your personal account will be blocked in many cases.
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Thanks, I never knew that.
I’ll leave it off.
If I may add a small bit of context to this excellent advice: Disabling the default “Administrator” account is a good default action (as opposed to renaming it) as any authenticated process can simply do a SID-to-USER lookup for “500” to enumerate the user account name. But you should still have an Administrator account that you only use as @JuergenP indicated that you’ll use during UAC prompts to provide escalation for required apps. While Cubase must be installed within the context of an administrative user, you can initiate the install as a “Standard” user, perform the escalation with your “new” Admin account, and everything will install properly.
I only bring this level of detail because if you’ve disabled the default Administrator user, but created ANOTHER admin user that you run all the time, you’ll still get the UAC prompt (depending on your Security Policy settings) but you’ve not really bought yourself any security. If you have the opportunity to reinstall everything now, maybe consider creating a Standard user for everyday use, and provide the Admin credentials when needed. Just a thought.
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Thanks
I’ll do a re-install when i get time, I didn’t know this would effect Cubase so much.
Thanks Thor.HOG
I’m going to reinstall the lot.
So when i load Windows 11 from scratch and have the administrator account with the machine working OK I create another account and install everything Cubase etc) using that account ?
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When you load Windows 11 for the first time, the account you create during install will be an administrator account, you’ll just name it something else, say “ADAdmin.” The system administrator account named “Administrator” is already disabled by default on Windows 11.
The “ideal” security configuration would be to then create a “standard user” account (e.g. Adrian) that you use for everyday computing. You would actually begin the Cubase installation logged in as Adrian, and (ensuring UAC was set to require admin escalation) during install UAC will prompt you for an admin user, which would be ADAdmin. This is how any and every non-server, user-based install of Windows I have is set up. I never, ever, run my interactive user as admin on any commodity version of Windows. Even in my real job, not a single user is logged in as an admin in any Windows system.
That said, if you are keenly aware of what you are doing, the default posture of Win11 kind of sets you up to BE the admin user, but use UAC as a “warning” if something nefarious is going on. This is certainly doable, and what most people do. This is also silly IMO, and it’s the core reason malware has propagated so effectively on Windows systems.
It takes just a few moments to properly configure UAC to require an admin user perform escalation when a process requires it, and doing with with a standard user is the only way I would conduct any interactive Windows logon where you’re checking mail and getting on the internet.
All my opinion, but I just wanted to be specific in my response.
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Brilliant, Many Thanks for taking time out to explain.
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