Hi dupreezd
What it is, when you update WD, there are lots of little programs within, some of these programs need permission to run
The problem arises sometime after you have said ok to give permission to WD to run, for example,
if you only have WD send an email when the station has met the criteria e.g. windspeed surpassed 30mph,
well, it could be hours or days before WD needs to send this email, at which point WD needs to use the "emailcron"
program and that is one that needs the permssion to run, so, you can imagine, this could be a problem if you
are on holdiay, no where near the PC for x amount of time and so on.
I might be wrong but i am fairly sure one of the little programs is important, and data loss occurs if its not allowed to run
oh yeah, theres a few, Awekas and WU (that i use), now, lets say the you updated and started WD giving permission to run and then go
to make a coffee and think nothing more about the weather PC cause you got sidetracked, well, theres a loss of data to
WU and awekas, myqsl wont update, bloomsky wont update, emial reports and alerts are not getting sent and so on because
even thoug you gave these little programs permissions before, you didnt think they would need them again but updating WD
as restarted that all over again.
it took me some internet searching to finally track down which setting in windows will prevent this permissions popup and
it turned out to be the internet downloads one.