As you know, when actually you launch RTemp under Vista
Ummm, I hate to admit this but up until yesterday I had never run RealTemp on Vista.
Well, maybe once, but that's the extent of RealTemp Vista development so far.

I finally have access to Vista for the first time today and I'm starting to learn about some of the issues that people have been complaining about for a long time.

You can run RealTemp with a double click from an icon on the desktop as long as you are an Administrator and UAC is disabled. I know there are users that think UAC is wonderful but as a user with a brain, I had it turned off in well under 24 hours. It would have been one hour but I had to fight with Vista for a while to get it to find my wireless router.

It's silly. When I double click on an icon the last thing I need is for my nanny to ask me if I really do want to run the program that I'm trying to open. Of course I want to run it or else I wouldn't be double clicking on it! The average user is not going to waste time reading the infinite warning messages so they'll just get in the habit of clicking OK or Yes to everything. My Vista rant for the day.

If you don't want to turn off UAC then you can add RealTemp to the Vista start up using the Task Scheduler where you can assign Administrator rights to RealTemp. This works without annoying messages or having to confirm anything. Maybe I'll add a Minimize on Close option so once RealTemp has started you won't accidentally close it.

Other programs use a signed ring0 driver to get around some of the Vista issues. I'm not smart enough and didn't want to waste my time learning how to write a driver so I'm using the WinRing0 open source driver. It works, didn't cost me a nickle and saved me lots of time. I'll probably continue to use it.

I've been working lately on some Vista64 Start Minimized issues with the infinitely patient burebista. Now that I can see RealTemp, which works OK in XP, not always Start Minimized properly in Vista, maybe I can finally fix this issue.