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February 26th, 2010 16:00
Dell Dock Unsupported Feature?
Some programs need to be 'Run as Administrator', and this is easy to do by right clicking a shortcut icon and turning on the option. But, as soon as you drag the icon to Dell Dock, it no longer runs as administrator, and provides no option for selecting it.
I'm assuming this is an unsupported feature in Dell Dock, any chance it can be added? The main reason I am assuming it is unsupported is because the same question was posted way back in May 2009 and received no replies.
Many programming tools require it, and since those are the programs I use most of the time, Dell Dock has become mostly useless for me, other than a great location to launch multiple web browsers from. Please, add this feature in future releases?
Tom Green
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February 26th, 2010 18:00
One other thing, the Dell Dock is for all users. In the icon shortcut properties under compatibility at the bottom
of page change settings for all users set privilege level to run as administrator. Hope this helps.
Tom Green
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February 26th, 2010 16:00
Set the program shortcut in it advance properties to run as administrator before you add it to Dell Dock.
adimauro
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February 26th, 2010 17:00
That's what I did, but it doesn't work. Once it's in the dock, it no longer runs as administrator, even though it was set on the shortcut originally.
adimauro
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February 26th, 2010 19:00
That worked! Thank you SO much for your help! I really appreciate it. :emotion-21:
JToering
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February 23rd, 2012 18:00
>In the icon shortcut properties under compatibility at the bottom of page change settings for all users set privilege level to run as administrator.<
What that doesn't work for is Windows utilities because the Compatibility options are disabled for them. For Windows utilities shortcuts you can check run as administrator under the Advanced button, but the moment drag it into the DellDock, it will no longer run as administrator. The way around the problem for Windows utilities is make a folder with shortcuts to your Windows utilities, and make a shortcut to the folder in DellDock.