Privacy Policy
We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Here you can learn how we handle your data.
1. Responsible Party
The party responsible for data processing on this website is Marc Schiller, Nächstmatten 50, 79232 March, Germany. Email: contact@deskora.de
2. Collection and Storage of Personal Data
When you visit our website, information is automatically collected by the server log file (e.g., IP address, browser type, time of access). This data is not merged with other data sources.
3. Cookies
This website uses cookies solely to store your language preference. No tracking or advertising cookies are used. You can opt out of cookies via the cookie banner.
4. Contact Form
When you send us a message via the contact form, your details (name, email, message) are stored to process your inquiry and forwarded by email. No data is shared with third parties.
5. Your Rights
You have the right to access, rectify, delete, and restrict the processing of your personal data. Please contact us at contact@deskora.de.
No administrator rights required
Deskora runs at the normal Windows integrity level. Starting it does not show a User Account Control prompt, and a program you launch from Deskora runs with your ordinary user account - not as administrator.
Why elevated rights are involved at all
Deskora finds files instantly because it reads the NTFS master file table and the USN change journal directly instead of walking every folder. Windows only permits that for members of the Administrators group. This is the single reason Deskora ever needed elevated rights.
A small service does that work - and nothing else
That one task runs in a separate, deliberately minimal Windows service called DeskoraIndexService. It reads the master file table and the change journal, keeps the file index current and hands the finished index to the user interface.
What the service explicitly does not do
It has no user interface. It performs no network access of any kind. It starts no programs. It opens no file and no path on request from the user interface - it never accepts a path from it at all. It parses no file contents. This boundary is documented in the source code and enforced by an automated test.
On a shared computer
The service indexes every fixed drive, but it only shares the entries your own account is allowed to see. It checks that against your Windows permissions before handing anything over. File names belonging to other user accounts stay invisible.
Works without administrator rights
If the service is not installed or not running - on a managed company computer, for example - Deskora scans the folders directly instead. The search keeps working. Building the index takes longer and live updates are unavailable; Deskora says so instead of leaving the search silently empty.
Running something as administrator on purpose
Right-click an entry in the Software view and choose Run as administrator. Windows asks for confirmation, exactly as it does everywhere else.