{"id":288,"date":"2012-05-18T09:59:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2012-09-14T09:46:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:46:57","slug":"synergy-and-text-expansion-programs-on-windows-7-dont-run-as-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/synergy-and-text-expansion-programs-on-windows-7-dont-run-as-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Synergy and Text Expansion Programs on Windows 7? Don&rsquo;t run as admin."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/synergy-foss.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Synergy<\/a> is great. And text expansion\/replacement tools are great (ie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phraseexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PhraseExpress<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autohotkey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AutoHotKey<\/a>). And Windows 7\u2026well I guess it\u2019s alright as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Synergy<\/strong> lets me share my mouse and keyboard between my Windows desktop, my Macbook, and even a linux machine (if I still ran one at work). It even synchronizes the clipboard betweeen screens. Great stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhraseExpress<\/strong> is my current favorite text expansion tool. I use it to insert my signature into emails and other places where I might repeatedly type something. And it\u2019s free for personal use. I\u2019d use TextExpander on my Mac, but I\u2019m cheap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now here\u2019s the problem: <strong>if you run Synergy (either 1.3.8 stable or 1.4.8 beta at the time of this writing) and install it to autostart on login, your text expansion tool will problem not work. \u00a0<\/strong>So just run it manually after you login, and you&#8217;ll be okay.\u00a0The autostart process for Synergy requires administrative rights, and seems to interfere with the hooks that the text expansion tools need to work.<\/p>\n<p>After switching to a new workstation, I installed my necessary programs including the ones listed above, and noticed that PhraseExpress didn\u2019t work. I thought it was a problem with that specific program. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and updating, and even tried AutoHotKey for a bit (which is great, but it\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>Until I come up with something smarter, I\u2019ll just start Synergy manually when I restart my computer. That\u2019s not the end of the world, and at least PhraseExpress will work.<\/p>\n<p>So beware. Two great programs, but don\u2019t run them as admin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synergy is great. And text expansion\/replacement tools are great (ie, PhraseExpress or AutoHotKey). And Windows 7\u2026well I guess it\u2019s alright as well. Synergy lets me share my mouse and keyboard between my Windows desktop, my Macbook, and even a linux machine (if I still ran one at work). It even synchronizes the clipboard betweeen screens. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,29],"tags":[92,91,124,90,59],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifehacks","category-system-administration","tag-autohotkey","tag-phraseexpress","tag-software","tag-synergy","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}