Problems with Vista security obsession!

[Guest Larry S.]

After choosing to reformat my hard drive and do a clean reinstall of Vista,

I've run into some strange problems with Vista security that I wasn't having

before. First of all, When I installed Hotsync Manager (to sync with a Palm

TX handheld), I find that every time I boot up I get a Windows message that

some programs were blocked (in quick launch). I can go in and instruct the

program to let it run each time, but it gets to be a nuisance to have to keep

doing that. This never happened in the original install, before reformatting

the disk, and it doesn't happen with my laptop which is also on Vista. I

wouldn't mind having to verify security once, but there should at least be a

way to say "always allow this program". If there is, I would appreciate help

finding it. Otherwise, does anyone know what might be causing this to happen

in this installation, when it didn't before, and how I can fix it?

 

I am also having a problem with Windows Mail since the reinstall. Since I

didn't want to lose my email accounts, contacts, email folders, and saved

email, and I hadn't exported any of this, I did a restore from a backup set

(with NovaBackup), and had it overwrite all current files in the Windows Mail

directory. I expected this to work, but I started getting error messages

when I tried running Mail with UAC on, saying that Mail couldn't run. If I

shut off UAC, then Mail would work OK. Also, if UAC is on, I can do a "run

as administrator" on Mail, and then it will work. How can I get Windows Mail

back to running normally without losing everything that's in it?

 

Thanks for your help.

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Larry S