Just realized that after a fresh install a week ago, the items I have in my startup folder on the start menu, XFire, Logitech Setpoint and one more that is slipping my mind at the moment, that has to run as Administraotr, I have that set on the shortcut, but they dont' autorun after a reboot and login. If I manually navigate to Startup from the start menu, and click them they run and UAC asks me to continue and I am fine.Anyone else having similar issues?

Download autoruns from Microsoft site http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx and put into \windows\system32. This utility should come with Windows. After open it and go to options:- hide Microsoft and Windows entries- verify code signaturesNow you are ready to see what is going on on startup, so go to LOGON separator. Those are the programs at run. Now in USER menu, choose administrator and see if they are there to start on the fly!Worked? Adelino Araujo

Adelino, see the pic attached. The links work fine when manually clicked from teh start menu. Back in Vista, now that I think about it, they didn't autorun exactly, but a systray icon would tell me some programs were blocked on startup by Windows Defender, and I had to manually click them.I guess that with UAC, auto running a program as Administrator won't work since it would in a sense defeat the UAC right? If so, it should at least pop up the UAC window to allow me to let it continue. Do you have anything in your startup as Administraotr that runs?http://69.80.16.106/tmp/autoruns1.png

Hi casperinmd As you have seen, just as it was in Vista, you cannot use a startup item that requires adsministrator privileges. The difference in Windows 7 is that the Software Explorer component in Windows Defender, which would appear in the Notification Area as 'blocked programs' was removed in this version of the beta. Your best workaround, at this point, is to simply move the shortcuts to those startup programs to a convenient location and manually start them, after the computer boots. Hope this helps. Ronnie Vernon MVP

Programs that I want to run at startup that require adminstrative privileges Icreate tasks for in the task scheduler and set them to run at startup with elevated privileges. They then run with no user interaction.

Hi casperinmd (old post I know but thought I'd mention it in case anyone else has this problem) As others have mentioned here the problem is that Windows won't run a program as Administrator automatically from the startup folder. I managed a work-around with this as I was doing everything by remote and so couldn't install any extra program to allow it to run. If you create a shortcut in your startup folder WITHOUT admin rights pointing to a simple script to run a SECOND shortcut that HAS admin rights pointing to the program you want to run, it gets past this problem and runs fine. So you've got shortcut without admin rights -> script -> shortcut with admin rights -> program. Not the most elegant way of doing things I know, but it solves the problem.