Run Cycle as an Administrator

Run Cycle as an Administrator

Problem

Some steps in Cycle, mainly native app interaction steps such as clicking or typing, may not reliably execute unless Cycle is being run as an administrator.

Solution

It is recommended that Cycle is always run as an administrator.

NOTE: You may have to contact your system administrator to be able to run Cycle as an administrator.

Disclaimer: When Cycle is run as an administrator, web browsers opened through Cycle will also run with administrator privileges

Run Cycle as an administrator

Right click on your Cycle shortcut and click “Run as administrator”, this will launch Cycle as an administrator for that launch only.


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Set Cycle to run as administrator by default

If permissible, its best to set Cycle to always run as administrator.

To enable Cycle to run as an administrator by default, right click on your Cycle shortcut and open the properties menu.  

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Once the properties menu is open, navigate to the Compatibility menu and check the “Run the program as an administrator” box.  Click Apply/OK and Cycle will now run with admin privileges when launched.

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