Error message when trying to run Visual BCD Editor as Administrator on certain PCs

[Bluebyte9001]

When starting the program, there is a pop-up error message on my main computer saying that Visual BCD Editor must be run with Admin Privileges. After clicking the error message away, Visual BCD editor just quits.
I am certain my user has admin. privileges. My user is member of the Administrator group according to user accounts. It is the only application that is giving me this warning (other apps demanding admin. rights does not give me the problem).

Try to google this issue, and you will see there are other users that have the same problem. It's a shame, since I am running the program on some other PCs fine with no problem.

I have no clue what is causing the issue, but as said it seems like something several users are running into.  The only thing that would be special about my main PC is that I am triple booting Windows 7, OSX and Linux.


BR

[boyans]

Visual BCD Editor and Dual-boot Repair request admin rights over .NET application manifest.

Nothing special.

If there are security problems then try creating a new user with admin rights and check if same error persists.

Other possible source of error is compromised .NET installation. Try re-installing / fixing .NET.

As far as I know users complaining about this error have no problems after re-installing Windows.

This is to say that there is some broken element in current Windows ( or .NET ) configuration giving security error.

I would suggest re-installation of .NET first as it takes less time.

Try also Belarc Advisor to check current configuration.

[lvasab]

I have also experienced this problem. In my case the error message "...run with admin priviledges"  appeared when a valid system BCD store did not exist.

(Background info, I was running it from a winPE bootable dvd, and the system hard disk had no BCD store. Microsoft's bcdedit tool gave an error message that bcd store did not exist).

 

I found a work-a-round by pointing Visual BCD at the store location I wanted to edit eg. running from command prompt:    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Visual BCD\VisualBcd.exe" E:\boot\BCD

You could try a similar command, but change paths to match your system.

 

Seems a bit strange that it gives an error about admin priviledges when the problem is caused by it not being able to find a default BCD store.

 

[Eric Psalmond]

This was also my issue, thanks for posting.

I'm editing the EFI system partition directly while switching my system over from BIOS/MBR mode to EFI mode.

It seems the program blindly tries to load the default store and just assumes that admin privileges don't exist if it can't find it.  EasyBCD prompts the user to select a BCD file to edit in this condition... but it doesn't let you hand edit the entries.

I'm just changing "winload.exe" to "winload.efi" - Visual BCD editor is rad for my purposes!

[modal1]

Thank you. This work-around bypassed the issue and the program loaded.

[boyans]

You can also drop a non-system BCD file on VBCDE icon to open it. 

[jimmmng]

thanks.