Clarity - Run as Administrator problem under Windows Vista or Windows 7

Clarity needs to be run under Administrator account to function properly. There are two ways to set this up:

Solution for small-medium size businesses (no Windows domain controller)

Steps:

1. Right click the Clarity icon on your desktop. Click Properties.
2. Go to Compatibility tab. Under Privilege Level box, check "Run this program as administrator".
3. Select OK. The program will run as administrator from that point on.

Solution for larger environments with domain controllers

Solution 1: Give your payroll user local administrator rights and do not forget to update your group policy settings (gpupdate).

Solution 2: Follow this article to run the programs as administrator without domain policy rules:

Disable UAC For Certain Applications under Windows Vista or Windows 7

This solution will create a record under Windows Vista or Windows 7 to run the program with Administrator rights without asking any questions to the user or requiring any access. To create a permanent record under Windows Vista or Windows 7, read below.

Steps:

1. First download and install Application Compatibility Toolkit.
2. Find the shortcut icon for Compatibility Administrator. Right click it and click Run as administrator.
3. In the left hand pane, right-click on the database under Custom Databases and select Create New, and select Application Fix.
4. Enter the name and other details of the application you want to alter behavior on and then browse to it to select it. Click Next.
5. Click Next until you are in the Compatibility Fixes screen.
6. On the Compatibility Fixes screen, find the item RunAsInvoker, and check it.
7. Click Next and then Finish.
8. Select File and Save As. Save the file as a app.SDB type file in a directory you will easily find it.
9. Navigate to Start Menu, Right click Command Prompt and click Run as administrator.
10. Run the following command at the prompt :sdbinst <path>\app.sdb 
    Where <path> is the location where you have saved the app.sdb file. For example, if you saved the .SDB file as app.sdb in the c:\Windows folder, the command should be like this: 
    sdbinst  c:\windows\app.sdb
11. You should now get a confirmatory message.
12. Vista will no longer prompt you with the UAC every time you open Clarity.