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Unwanted dialog box with every login

I have a PC with 2 users, me and my wife. I have installed My Cloud Home successfully on my own username, and set up both users to access the Z: drive. However the other user gets a dialog box very soon after login (whether or not using a different sign-in to WD: I’ve tried both). The dialog box says:

User Account Control

Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?

WD Discovery Application Installation Utilities

Verified publisher: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

File Origin: Hard drive on this computer

To continue, enter an admin user name and password…

How do I get rid of the dialog box?

The following article explains how to address this issue.

WD Discovery Prompts for Admin User on non Admin Account

Answer ID 17881

Thank you for your reply. It explains the situation.

Minimising the User Account Control setting seems a bit drastic. As it happens promoting my wife’s user account to Administrator does no harm, so that’s what I’ve done and so far it solves the problem. I do hope you find some way to update the software so that standard users can use it.

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