Specifications

228 Appendix B Computer Issues
• Remote updating of WATCHOUT software and components. Since an
application under UAC doesn’t have permission to write to its own program
folder, or manage its components, those functions will generally fail under
UAC. Instead, you must manually install updates on each display computer,
with UAC prompting you for you administrator password.
For a regular PC, used to surf the web, the User Access Control is a good thing.
However, for an unattended computer running only WATCHOUT display soft-
ware on a private network, often without a keyboard connected, it doesn’t
make any sense.
To turn off the UAC:
• Click Start Menu, Control Panel, Action Center.
• Click Change User Account Control Settings.
• Drag the slider to Never Notify.
• Click OK and restart your computer.
You may need to take additional measures if you have already used a display
computer with UAC enabled, and then choose to disable it. As disabling UAC
also removes the automatic folder redirection, WATCHOUT will no longer see
its previous Shows folder, and will therefore create a new one, downloading
your shows anew. To avoid this problem after disabling the UAC, move the
Shows folder to its traditional location inside the WATCHOUT Programs folder
before restarting WATCHOUT