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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How do I run a program as admin without entering user credentials?
You're probably going to say DUPE! but that question's answer is specifically for a batch file command while mine isn't
I have a domain that is running a program on all computers (Win7 and XP). In ...
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I have enabled hidden administrator in Windows 7 home, but programs still don't work
I have Windows 7 Home Premium, and would like to do some maintenance tasks such as running Disk Defragmenter. However, this and other programs and applications that I'm accustomed to using are now ...
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How can I run a program with Administrator permissions on startup, and minimize to tray?
I like to keep Process Explorer running full-time. I particularly like to use it to display several statistics (e.g.: Usage graphs for CPU, RAM, Network, GPU) in the system tray. However, some of ...
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Prevent specific applications from being run as administrator
Background
Most installation toolkits have the ability to launch, automatically or otherwise, external programs after installation. This is often appears in the installer via such options as "Show ...
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Why my Network Connection Properties don't show UAC prompt & settings change everytime I connect?
I can't set my network connection interface properties, UAC prompt doesn't appear anymore for only this adapter interface. I disable Netbios but each time I connect it changes back to default. Earlier ...
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What is a “loader flag” in Windows?
I was following the accepted solution to the following SuperUser question, which recommends the use of the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit to apply the RunAsInvoker fix:
Prevent elevation ...
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Is it possible to disable UAC for one user only via registry or command line?
I would like to make a special user that has UAC disabled and I'd like to be able to automate it.
Note that Disable Vista UAC for Admin Only is not a duplicate, because it uses GPOs.
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Executing Commands at Cmd Prompt Result in “Access Denied”
I am running Windows 7.
Whenever I try to run commands like 'ping', 'ipconfig', 'taskkill', 'tasklist', etc from the command line I get an "Access is denied" message.
I checked the "Advanced ...
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Running logon scripts with the standard user access token?
I have a powershell script which executes after I logon to my account. This is done by a group policy logon script.
Because I am in the Administrator group this script is run with elevated rights ...
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Win8 consent.exe “File system error -1073741819”
consent.exe ([UAC]) is failing for me every time I try to install a program or driver, or disable UAC;
Faulting application name: consent.exe, version: 6.2.9200.16384, time stamp: 0x50108159
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Disabling UAC on Windows 8 causing issues with installations
I disabled UAC on my Windows 8 install, but I found that it caused me issues when I needed to install downloaded programs (installation would fail due to no admin privileges).
I re-enabled UAC, but ...
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Win7: “… the call to DllRegisterServer failed with the error code 0x80004005.”
I've searched around for answers on this topic and the one solution that keeps coming up is to run command prompt as administrator.
I'm getting the following error in Windows 7: "... the call to ...
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User Account Control warning showed everytime I run an installed program
I just installed Windows 8 on my computer. Next I installed a program for prototyping (Pencil). Everytime I run this program I have the following Warning:
User Account Control
Do you want to allow ...
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Windows 7: Benefits of a standard user account with UAC active in a single user setting?
I have been doing research over the last days to find the best way to set up secure user accounts in Windows 7. I learned some new things about UAC (user account control) and AAM (admin approval ...
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How to run an application with administrator rights all the time?
I have a shortcut to an application that I have to run as administrator. There is an option in the properties of this shortcut that this application should be always ran as administrator. ...
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C# Application prompts for Admin Credentials for particular user
I have two users one a month old, and one brand new.
Both are standard users(belong to standard users group).
UAC Setting is set to Default.
Problem is while launching a C# App, old_user prompts ...
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Deploying Windows Service through group policy fails with Event ID 102
I'm trying to deploy a custom Windows Service (written in C#; installed through a VS setup project) using a group policy. To help debug this, I also have two additional MSIs in the same policy. All ...
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Explorer fails to load with UAC enabled
While running an InstallShield based installer, my Windows 7 machine became unresponsive. After forcing a reboot, I can log in to the system, but explorer does not run.
I can log in as a different ...
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Running Salamander as admin on a per operation basis
Is there a way of running Altap Salamander at the same security level as windows explorer? In windows explorer, if you attempt to, say, delete a file in Program Files it will pop up saying that you ...
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UAC warning still occurs after program is uninstalled
I have uninstalled a program but continue to get the UAC warning popup for that program every time I start my PC. How do I get rid of it?
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Make UAC stop asking for password of first installer
When I execute a program that makes the UAC jump I get the following message:
Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?
That is fine.
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Is there a way to run resource monitor (resmon.exe) without administrator privileges?
Is there a way to run resource monitor (resmon.exe) without administrator privileges?
The user is member of the debug users, power users, performance monitor and performance log groups, however, this ...
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Start/stop services from command prompt under non Administrator user, but belonging to administrators group
I have a WIN7 computer with user which is in Administrator group. Let's call it MyUser.
UAC turned ON.
I have several services launched under local system.
When I'm trying to start or stop these ...
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Cannot activate .net 3.5 on Windows 8. Can't activate from control panel and never got an installation CD or iso with my computer to use DISM with
I've been trying for about a week now to activate .Net Framework 3.5 on my computer to no avail. I've been trying to activate it via 'Turn Windows Features On and Off' in the control panel as well as ...
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Extracting a zip file via VBScript running as a service
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OS: Windows 7
UAC: Disabled
What: I am running a VBScript that extracts a zip file, and the vbscript is kicked off by Jenkins service. I need to use the VBScript, and I can not use external ...
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Unable to move Desktop Files on Windows 7
Has anyone come across an issue while running on Windows 7 Professional on a domain, where all the sudden they can no longer move around any files on the desktop?
What's even more weird is when I try ...
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MSI UAC always opens behind window
When installing MSI packages, the UAC prompt always appears behind the MSI installer window. This does not happen for any other scenarios (EXE installers, other programs, etc), just MSI packages.
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UAC manifest file
I have an exe, for which I have created a manifest file shown in URL:
change exe option to run as administrator by bat script on Windows 7
The problem is that, the exe writes the output to a child ...
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How can I make my keyboard's media keys work when an elevated program has focus?
When I hit my media keys when using Visual Studio 2010 normally, they control Media Player Classic just fine. When I launch VS2010 with elevated privileges, I have to select another program in order ...
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UAC prompt defaults to Ok
Have a Win 7 box, SP1, with default UAC settings (just for the feeling). When I run something as Administrator, the UAC elevation prompt comes up, asking for an admin password. That's designed ...
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I get no elevate dialog anymore
Whenever I launch a program, try to save files in 'C:\Program Files' and more, I don't get the Administrator Privileges dialog anymore. (Started about a month ago)
I can't run the chrome flash plugin ...
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Make UAC dialog have focus by default
I recently threw in some extra RAM and an SSD into a pretty old laptop and tossed in an unused copy of Windows 7, and to my surprise it works pretty well. The only thing I had problems with was the ...
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Is there a tool that will automatically fix programs requesting elevation when they don't need it
I have heard of the external manifest trick to get programs not to ask for elevation when they really don't need it.
Is there a program that will automatically modify or add a manifest to an ...
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Stop graphics from switching on UAC prompt
I have a (minor) problem with switchable graphics on my laptop (Lenovo T520, NVidia Quadro NVS4200M and some Intel, drivers up-to-date).
When I run an action on Windows 7 that requires an UAC ...
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Run a program in XP compatibility on Win 7 *without* admin rights
I have a VB.NET program I wrote which uses Process.Start() to launch an '.ARTask' file associated with BMC Remedy User. For reasons beyond the scope of this question (someone else had the same problem ...
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UAC Quiet Mode & Recycle Bin
When running UAC on Windows 7 in so-called "quiet-mode" (automatic "Yes" to UAC prompts on Admin accounts), Delete operations on restricted files (where the Delete option is marked with the UAC ...
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Allow Non Administrator User To Launch iTunes When Another User Already Has iTunes Open
On My Windows 7 machine I have two user accounts, one Admin account for myself and one regular account for my wife. Both of us use iTunes to manage our separate music libraries and Apple devices.
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Request Administrator Access in Batch File on Windows 8
I'm alway using the following code for automatically prompting UAC.It works fine on Windows Vista/7/2008.But it seems that on Windows 8 the script can't get the administrator privilege even the UAC ...
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Regedit does not ask for password when started as administrator
I needed to change the access rights to the system log on two computers (both running Windows 7), as described in this question. I did it successfully on one of the computers.
On the second one, I ...
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How does one determine if current user token is filtered or elevated?
Via the windows commandline, how is this performed?
Context:
The current user is a member of local Administrators.
Reference:
This post shows privilege flags disabled. I would imagine that there ...
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UAC issue with matlab on win 7
I have the following problem using matlab on Windows 7.
When I double-click a .mat file matlab starts and loads the double-clicked file. Double-Clicking further .mat files opens them also in matlab. ...
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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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Windows 7: Is there a way to move C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds folder?
Using display fusion there's an option to change my logon background to whatever my desktop background is.
The problem is that whenever my background switches I get a UAC prompt. I understand that ...
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Lync for IT support - problems with UAC prompts
I want to do IT-Support with Microsoft Lync Desktop sharing. Only problem, I have to disable UAC, because if UAC is enabled I get a black screen and the user has to click to accept, what I want to do.
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UAC spontaneously turned on?
I told Process Monitor to monitor the system boot, and then rebooted.
The system started, but some some programs started freezing.
From exploring the symptoms a bit I suspected it was the antivirus, ...
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Show the %username% for the logged in user in an elevated command prompt instead of elevated users %username%?
On a Windows Vista Business machine, I have Windows Task Scheduler task set to run everytime any user logs in. The task runs as a certain elevated admin user because the script is being executed from ...
