HOWTO: Install our software on Windows Vista

Run the setup after downloading it from our website. It is possible you will see the following screen:



Select to ‘run’ the setup program. After this, you will see the following screen if you haven’t disabled the 'User Account Control' as described here.



Our applications require the UAC to be disabled. The setup program will disable this automatically for you. For now, you can select ‘Allow’. This will enable you to run the setup program.

Now the setup will start. Follow the setup wizard. At the end of the setup, the program might ask you to reboot the PC. Please do so before using our application. Note the message on the bottom. This means the setup disabled the User Account Control system to make sure our application works as it should. It is possible you will also see this message after reboot. You can simply ignore this message.



It is possible that you will see a Firewall screen the first time you run our watchdog application. The watchdog application is trying to send local information on the network to detect if other watchdog programs are running. We advise you to 'Unblock' our application, certainly if you want to send emails with the watchdog program. Most functions will work without any problems if you choose to keep the watchdog blocked though.



Please contact us if you have any questions regarding the install.

HOWTO: Run our programs in Vista (disable UAC and enable administrator rights)

To run our applications in Vista, you need to run the programs with administrator rights. You can do this by disabling the User Account Control (UAC). Simply follow this guide to enable this feature.

1) Click Start and then open Control Panel.



2) In the Control Panel, click 'User Accounts and Family Safety'.



3) Click 'User Accounts'.



4) Click 'Turn User Account Control on or off'.



5) Clear the tick or check mark on the box beside the 'Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer' option.



6) Press OK. When prompted, restart the computer.

Alternatively, advanced users can open a registry editor. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System . In the details pane, you will find 'EnableLUA'. Change this value to 0, save and reboot the PC.

With administrator rights enabled, every feature of our software should be running. Note that these changes will automatically enable administrator rights for all users.