3DS Max run as admin + drag and drop

[Bormax]

Hi
I've just noticed that 3DS Max gives better viewport performance if I run it as administrator. Actually the same is happening with Autocad. But in this case drag and drop function doesn't work, so I can't simply drag and drop textures to the material editor or viewport from Windows explorer.
Do you know any way to make drag and drop work with Max (and Autocad) if it's been run as administrator and keeping UAC on?

[maru]

I would love to know a solution to this myself.
My first random idea was to run explorer.exe as administrator, but I haven't tried it yet. There are some tutorials online, so maybe be worth trying.

[Mohammadreza Mohseni]

I would love to know a solution to this myself.
My first random idea was to run explorer.exe as administrator, but I haven't tried it yet. There are some tutorials online, so maybe be worth trying.

yes, Marcin, you are right. I have used this trick frequently and will work.
you just need to take ownership of a registry key and then rename it. after that, run as admin the explorer.exe .

[Bormax]

yes, Marcin, you are right. I have used this trick frequently and will work.
you just need to take ownership of a registry key and then rename it. after that, run as admin the explorer.exe .

I've tried to run explorer.exe as admin, but it didn't help. This trick works with Total Commander, but I don't like how it looks. Actually it works with any image viewers as well and it's could be OK if we are talking about dragging textures to mat editor. But would be nicer to have this option using regular explorer to drag .max files to open/merg/xref them.
So could you, please, explain what did you mean by "take ownership of a registry key and then rename it"?

[Ondra]

this is 99% windows issue. The real problem is that you have to run max as administrator for some reasons which should be fixable by autodesk, if it really helps...

[Bormax]

this is 99% windows issue. The real problem is that you have to run max as administrator for some reasons which should be fixable by autodesk, if it really helps...

Yes, that's true. I've tried to contact Autodesk when I've noticed this issue with Autocad in 2015, but they didn't do anything to fix it.
Now I can see that Max 2016's and 2019's viewport performance is lower if it's run not as admin. Maybe it's because of some settings on my computers, IDK...
Could you guys write here if you have the same situation on your workstations?

[romullus]

How do you exactly compare performance in both modes? I might give it a try, but i'm rubbish at telling difference between good and OK perf.

[Bormax]

How do you exactly compare performance in both modes? I might give it a try, but i'm rubbish at telling difference between good and OK perf.

It's clearly visible for me. Even if I start Max (normally) and empty start scene is loaded with grid "on" simple orbiting goes not smooth - with "steps". If I run Max as admin orbiting gets very smooth.
And it's really noticeable if the same scene opened in two Max instances which run differently - normally and as admin.
At the moment I have GeForce GTX 1060 6GB, it's good enough to work smoothly with pretty heavy scenes if they launched as administrator. But I had the same issue with my old video card

[romullus]

I see. I have the same GPU, yet for me viewports runs very smooth in normal mode. I guess i don't have this issue *knocks on wood and walks away