ACTIVdriver

[tomscaper]

Hi

Downloaded the new version of activ driver from promethean world, and set it to deploy via GPO, everything deploys fine, but when i logged on the machine to test, for some reason it runs two copies of activcontrol2.exe one under the system account and one as my username. This is a newly build machine, and has AS3 on.

I have checked incase there were duplicate lines in HKLM & HKCM - /Software/Microsoft/Windows/Run, but there is only the one.

Has anyone had this problem before, last year the drivers used to be installed manually so this is the first time i have tried deploying.

Also to include i have tried versions 4.1.8. 4.1.10 & 4.1.13

Thanks
Tom

[tomscaper]

No one ever experienced anything like this, its almost as if it is running the ActivControl2.exe on per machine and per user.

[Geoff]

Wouldn't it have to do that if the user was running as a Limited user and the driver needed to do low level stuff with the hardware?

[tomscaper]

Originally Posted by Geoff

Wouldn't it have to do that if the user was running as a Limited user and the driver needed to do low level stuff with the hardware?

In task manager it shows ActivControl2.exe running as SYSTEM and a seonds running as the username i log on with, it does it for both admin and staff.

[tomscaper]

Well it seems to be fixed now, i altered the msi in wininstall to do a reboot after install, and i created a mst to not put activfilter in HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Run.

Not sure why this changed it but it did.

[plexer]

With the initial install I think a reboot was all that was needed.

I've noticed that if I deploy it via gpo when I log on there are 2 copies running in the notification area but after a reboot one dissappears.

Ben

[tomscaper]

I would agree but i had rebooted the machine manually and it still would load two copies.