[DaltonST]

After I reinstalled Windows 10 Home 1903, and auto-add was still broken, I continued searching and found 2 workarounds:


[1] https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/r...he-uac-prompt/



I created an on-demand Task that runs Calibre at the "highest level of security". I then created a .bat file that runs schtasks.exe specifying the name of the Task to run. Task name: "Run Calibre with Highest Security"

It worked perfectly the very first time I ran this task manually from the Task Scheduler. I was still running from my personal 3.44 source code, however.

I run Calibre from shortcuts that use the --with-library option anyway, so this is a trivial difference.

I am using this workaround, and not the one below.

schtasks.exe /Run /I /TN "Run Calibre with Highest Security"

Caution: you still need to loosen the Security permissions for your auto-add directories as described in a previous post (see: "necessary but not sufficient").






[2] https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/u...administrator/



For Windows 10 Home, the Registry Hack option for Users works, but it has a very high security risk associated with it.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\System

Changing the 3 (prompt) to a 0 (no prompt) for ConsentPromptBehaviorUser is dangerous. My ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin was already 0 (no prompt).

Obviously the process that Calibre spawns for auto-add is being treated as a User in my system, and not an Administrator (as it should be, since Calibre is being run as an Administrator).





DaltonST