Hi Elkayem, I don't think it's a workaround but rather a requirement of SampleTank. The following is a quote from IK Multimedia on the KVR forum:

"All our LEGACY plug-ins including SampleTank 2.x were developed before the restrictions on system folders were introduced in Windows. SampleTank for example expects to be able to write Presets and the instrument database in it's installation folder (typically c:\Program Files\IK Multimedia) at RUN time. To grant this privilege to SampleTank when it is ran inside a DAW, the only possibility is using Run As Administrator on the DAW (or our standalone) executable file."

They went on to say that the next version of SampleTank will not have this requirement as it will not need to write to a system folder at runtime.

Regards


Richard Williams
Sydney
Australia