User Account Control is a technology on Windows Vista and up that improves security on systems by limiting processes to standard user privileges until an administrator manually authorizes privilege elevation.
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Selectively disabling UAC for specific programs on Windows 7
I have some programs running on start-up like Everything. UAC prompts every time the Windows starts. How can I set a program to make sure that no intervening prompt would appear during start-up?
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Disabling UAC on Windows 7?
How can I completely disable UAC on Windows 7?
Also, I know my own benefits, but what are the risks?
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How do I disable administrator prompt in Windows 8?
I am using Windows 8 Enterprise on my development machine. Most of the time, I need full administrator for debugging, changing system files, etc.
In Windows 7, setting UAC to "never notify" would ...
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Can you turn off UAC for a single app?
I'm running windows 7 RC.
I've got a few poorly-designed apps that force me to click through a UAC box in order to launch them. This is becoming quite an annoyance. I don't mind UAC aside from this ...
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Prevent elevation (UAC) for an application that doesn't need it
Having recently migrated from Vista 32bit to Windows 7 64bit, one of my programs now requires admin rights.
I use a rather exotic text editor (Crimson Editor). Although not designed for Vist/Win7 it ...
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Elevated Priviliges for Startup Applications in Vista
Is there any way to configure application that requires administrator privilages (elevation) so it's automatically started with elevated privileges and does not request elevation on every startup?
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Run As Administrator Shortcut Without Password Prompt
I have installed a program on Windows 7 that needs Admin rights to run properly. When running on Windows XP; I used the runas command with the savecred switch to create a shortcut that opened the ...
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How to always run as administrator applications on Windows 8
The problem is, when I open applications I need to always right click, select run as admin.
When I don't do it getting unexpected application errors. BTW, I turned off UAC.
It's annoying. Is ...
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How do I run the Windows 7 Explorer shell with Administrator Privileges by default?
The Windows 7 shell (Explorer) can be made to run with Administrator privileges by this manual process:
Kill Explorer shell by holding down Shift+Ctrl, right-clicking the Shut down button in the ...
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Stop UAC/Secure Desktop from dimming the screen
I like the concepts of UAC and the "Secure Desktop" in Windows 7, but I don't like the dimming of the Secure Desktop to prompt for Admin credentials (or OK button to get clicked).
However, dimming ...
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UAC being turned off once a day on Windows 7
I have strange problem on my HP laptop. This began to happen recently. Whenever I start my machine, Windows 7 Action Center displays the following warning:
You need to restart your computer for
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Deleting folders give access denied error message on Windows 7, although I am administrator
I have an external hard drive that was used as a Windows partition before, but now I want to use it for storage instead. I have added it to my Windows 7 machine, but I am not allowed to write or ...
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How can I tell whether a process is running with administrator permissions?
I'm using Windows Vista, with UAC enabled. I've installed an application, and the installer required admin privileges. The installer then started the application. I'd like to know if the application ...
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How to Remove UAC Icon Overlays (Blue-Yellow Shields) in Windows 7
Over some of my program shortcuts and install files, there is an uac icon overlay (blue-yellow shield) and I find them really ugly. Is there any way to get rid of them please?
Edit
I closed UAC to ...
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Always elevated administrative rights in Windows 8 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable administrator prompt in Windows 8?
I always used Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (SP1) with User Account Control completely turned off - the slider in the ...
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Where do I find the certificate file so I can add a program to “Trusted Publishers” in the certmgr?
I have three programs that startup automatically with Windows 7.
They are:
Webroot SecureAnywhere
Soluto Anti-Frustration Software
everything.exe
Each of these programs bring up a blue UAC dialog ...
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How to assign permissions to manage windows service when UAC is enabled?
I have following scenario:
I'm local admin on my computer with Windows 7 Enterprise and UAC enabled
Computer is not in domain and is not under group policy
I run some program without running it as ...
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Windows 7 “Run as Administrator” when already an Administrator [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why do I need to run commands as administrator if my account is member of administrator group?
Silly question here: why in Windows 7 (and presumably Vista/Server2008) ...
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Grant permanent UAC permission to one program? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Selectively disabling UAC for specific programs on Windows 7
Is there a way to grant permanent UAC permission in Windows 7 to a single program? I have an old program ...
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Why does UAC still prompt me when “Run as Administrator” is permanently set?
In the Properties, Compatibility (or Shortcut) tab I have ticked the "Run as administrator" box for certain applications that need administrator privileges.
When I then run these applications Windows ...
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How to start a program as administrator through a pinned to taskbar shortcut, through one of the “recent” files
I'll try to explain my situation:
I am a developer and use Visual Studio. I always want to run Visual Studio as administator. I have pinned a shortcut to the task bar and in its properties set it to ...
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How to tell Windows 7 that an application does not need to run with admin rights? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Prevent elevation (UAC) for an application that doesn't need it
I am using an application that was written before Windows Vista/Windows 7. Windows has decided that ...
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How can to manually change the default (suggested / favourite) users of the Windows UAC dialog?
Whenever I want elevated rights (via the Windows 7 User Access Control dialog), I need to input the [LaptopLocalName]\administrator. Because the user is in the domain, you cannot even just type ...
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Always start Visual Studio as an Administrator on Windows 8
Whenever I start Visual Studio 2012 in Windows 8 it always needs Administrator permissions to access IIS meta data and debug local web applications on IIS.
If I turn UAC off, I cannot launch the ...
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Hide account from login screen but can be used in UAC
So I have a Windows 7 home machine with 2 user accounts. One is a standard user account and one is an administrator account. Now this is going to be put in the hands of a very low-tech user so I ...
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How can I get the UAC/elevation prompt to remember my local username?
I want to be able to run as a non-admin domain account for normal work and be prompted for elevation when needed. This is fine when not in a domain as the elevation prompt remembers my user name and I ...
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How to deny elevation to a program?
Does Windows have a "automatically deny elevation request" list?
If a user is a "standard user", it is possible to have Windows automatically deny any elevation requests by changing the ...
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How to get UAC to co-operate with synergy2
How do I get UAC to behave so that I can control the dimmed desktop and programs running under UAC grants with synergy client? (The kb and mouse are connected to a Linux machine, windows is running ...
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Disable Vista UAC for Admin Only
In vista is there a way to disable the UAC for Administrators only? Preferrably without to much messing with the registry.
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How to run Firefox in Protected Mode? (i.e. at low integrity level)
I noticed that Firefox, unlike Chrome and Internet Explorer, doesn't run in the Low Mandatory Level (aka Protected Mode, Low Integrity)
Google Chrome:
Microsoft Internet Explorer:
Mozilla ...
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Setting a shortcut to trigger task scheduler
I wanted to disable the UAC popup box when running the command prompt as admin, but this didn't work for me. What did work, was setting the task scheduler to run it as admin given a specific trigger. ...
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Prevent elevation (UAC) for an unsigned application
I'm in the task to make a .manifest file, so Win7 does no bother me with the UAC because it is an unsigned app. (The app is old and wont be upgraded)
I've tried several ways from looking around the ...
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Run a program from context menu with admin priveledges (vista UAC)
I have been using Notepad2 lately, great util and i added it to the context menu hence i can click on a file and say Notepad2 and it edits it .. but it loads notepad2 without admin privs so i can't ...
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Windows 7 UAC (user access control) is being disabled on every reboot
To put it simply, I noticed UAC was disabled so I enabled it. I was prompted to reboot the computer for the changes to take effect. Upon my reboot I checked the settings again as I hadn't disabled UAC ...
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Send Ctrl+Alt+Del over VNC with Windows Vista and UAC off?
I'm trying to set up a machine here with UltraVNC on Windows Vista with UAC off. The problem is, in this configuration, I can't send Ctrl + Alt + Del (CAD) to the Windows Vista machine, and ...
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How to fully stop UAC Windows 8
I have a problem, i have a Windows 8 realease Preview. I have UAC turned off always, but for test i switched UAC on (slider up) and restarted my pc, then, i turned it off (slider down) and restarted ...
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How to start WampServer without providing administrator privileges?
I just set up Dexpot to start WampServer automatically when I enter a new desktop. The problem is that I've hidden my taskbar, and WampServer needs administrative rights. So I have to use Alt-Tab to ...
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Windows 7 : How to set default choice as “Yes” in UAC?
Is there any way to set default choice as "Yes" ,while running any application in windows 7 it will prompt us to allow or not . By default select option is "no" always .
I want to set "Yes" as a ...
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Create files on C:\ root gives error 0x80070522
One of our customers has just found a problem when trying to create a file on the root of the C:\ Drive, on a Windows 7 Professional PC.
I know they shouln't be keeping files here, but there is a ...
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Windows 7 turn off UAC from non-privelaged account
i have a bit of a pickle.A few years ago i disabled administrator on my old windows 7 computer and created an admin account of my own. I also set a boot password. The problem is, now i can't access ...
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change exe option to run as administrator by bat script on Windows 7
I can't disable UAC in Windows 7 and I want to change .exe option to run as administrator. I can right click on icon and goto compatibility then change this option through GUI but I have to do by ...
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Disable UAC prompt for certain executables [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Selectively disabling UAC for specific programs on Windows 7
Is it possible on Windows 7 to run a certain executable as Aministrator without UAC prompt and without ...
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This app can't be activated when UAC is disabled
I'm using Windows 8 and since I'm a developer, I need full control over my PC. However, Window 8 doesn't have an straightforward way to disable UAC, and even by dragging the relevant slider to the ...
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Start a service (or services) with a double-click without the UAC prompt
I'd like to put an icon on my taskbar (pinned), quick launch toolbar (how to add a QLT on Windows 7) or system tray, that if I click or double-click it, it will restart a preset Windows service ...
