>Hey, guys...
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>Exe is techman.exe, and no references to any of those unmentionable words. I have used the scheduler trick to avoid the UAC on a local machine, but if run from the server, windows pops up another confirmation box unrelated to UAC, saying 'open file security warning... we can't verify who created this file. are you sure you want to run this file?' Only way to cut the cr#p is to turn UAC off, and that defeats the purpose. Sometimes i wonder what those Redmondians smoke...

If I'm not mistaken the "Unknown Publisher" dialog is a separate issue from the UAC. If I'm not mistaken you'll get this in XP as well. And the particular dialog is triggered when you try to run an EXE without a digital signature from a remote drive (i.e. EXE is not on a local drive). IIRC the workaround (in the case you're not able to digitally sign the EXE) is to add the host computer (the computer on which the EXE resides) to the "Trusted sites" (see "Security" tab of "Internet options" from Control Panel)..