vista and blocked startup programs

How do you unblock programs from starting? The driver for my spaceball is setup to start upon windows starting, but every time I get a message saying “windows blocked some programs from starting” and I have to manually allow it to start. I looked through windows defender for a way to allow it, but can’t find it. Anyone know how to do it?

msconfig

yup msconfig -> startup

what i want to know is how to turn that stupid alert off

well, it says that it’s enabled and everything looks ok. Still wont start automatically though.

Google

start > control panel > user accounts > turn user account control on or off

then of course…turn it off. see if that helps