Vista Confirmation Dialog For IE When Running Minion

[Shinjite]

For the past couple months, I've been getting the Vista Confirmation Dialog for Internet Explorer's Add-on Installer *almost* every time I've opened Minion. This is the confirmation box that opens when a program isn't running under admin privileges, if I'm calling it the wrong thing.

Anyhow, does someone know why this would be popping up? I don't use IE, and definitely not any IE browser add-ons. IE has never been open when I've run Minion. I just deny the program, and continue. Many thanks for any advice.

[Xaxziminrax the Second]

It could be that the Minion hooks into a browser to show the news service. It would probably reach for the system default.
Edit: If this is the case, change your default browser to firefox or something, and then open minion again as you typically would.

And is the term you're looking for UAC(?) (User Access Control). The one that looks like this? http://www.intelliadmin.com/images/V...C%20Prompt.png

[Shinjite]

Originally Posted by Xaxziminrax the Second It could be that the Minion hooks into a browser to show the news service. It would probably reach for the system default. Edit: If this is the case, change your default browser to firefox or something, and then open minion again as you typically would. And is the term you're looking for UAC(?) (User Access Control). The one that looks like this? http://www.intelliadmin.com/images/V...C%20Prompt.png

Sorry, I meant to include in my original post that FF is my default browser. I never open IE unless I actually need to do so.

The image you linked isn't the one that pops up though. It's this -ignore the File Operation that's asking to run, as this isn't the exact dialog I get-: http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/04/uac.jpg Although, technically, I believe they're the same, as the titlebar reads "User Account Control" in both images.

[Xrystal]

It might be a good idea to get the correct screenshot to appear if neither of those is what you are getting.

But if you only browser is FireFox it shouldn't ask for IE8 anyway unless its just a wording error somewhere.

[Shinjite]

Originally Posted by Xrystal It might be a good idea to get the correct screenshot to appear if neither of those is what you are getting. But if you only browser is FireFox it shouldn't ask for IE8 anyway unless its just a wording error somewhere.

I couldn't get a screenshot of the dialog since the prompt basically locks everything on my keyboard except my arrow keys to switch from Continue to Cancel, but I did open and close Minion about six times, and got the prompt twice- once on the first run, and the second on the sixth. However, I did get this error once during my tests:

EDIT: Forgot that HTML won't work, so I'll try again with the Insert Picture option:

Seems like it's still calling up IE for some reason. I did notice that the add never loaded in the corner after I canceled out this prompt. Puzzling indeed.

I'll try to Google an exact screenshot of the dialog that pops up.

[Shinjite]

Originally Posted by Shinjite I'll try to Google an exact screenshot of the dialog that pops up.

Found one: