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UAC ~ Administator Privelages
I have a few programs that I gave administrator privelages to, thinking that
UAC will no longer ask me about them. One of the programs is blocked on startup. I don't want to have to allow these programs every time. Is there a setting where only programs with administrator privelages will be ignored by UAC? |
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UAC ~ Administator Privelages
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Every time (if you use UAC) you must allow programs to have administrator credentials! You can also disable UAC and Vista turns like Windows XP "Mike" wrote in message ... I have a few programs that I gave administrator privelages to, thinking that UAC will no longer ask me about them. One of the programs is blocked on startup. I don't want to have to allow these programs every time. Is there a setting where only programs with administrator privelages will be ignored by UAC? |
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UAC ~ Administator Privelages
"Mike" wrote
I have a few programs that I gave administrator privelages to, thinking that UAC will no longer ask me about them. One of the programs is blocked on startup. I don't want to have to allow these programs every time. Is there a setting where only programs with administrator privelages will be ignored by UAC? No. Any program that runs at startup that is asking for admin privileges will be blocked until you give permission for it. See this link. Error message when you reach the Windows Vista Desktop: "Windows has blocked some startup programs" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930367/en-us -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] |
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UAC ~ Administator Privelages
I couldn't deal with UAC at first and turned it off but that isn't a good fix
because the IE then runs unprotected. I found this tweak here and it seems to give me the best of all worlds. If you go into the Local Security Policy MMC under Administrative Tools in the control panel, browse to Local Policies and click on Security Options, and then change the option labeled "User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode" to "Elevate Without Prompting", then UAC will behave like this: - Programs that are marked as requiring admin privileges will automatically run with admin - Programs that are NOT marked as needing admin privs will NOT receive admin privs So, you will still run into circumstances where you will have to work around UAC (i.e. where a program requires admin permissions but it is not marked as such), but this gives you the best of both worlds. -- Sam "Mike" wrote: I have a few programs that I gave administrator privelages to, thinking that UAC will no longer ask me about them. One of the programs is blocked on startup. I don't want to have to allow these programs every time. Is there a setting where only programs with administrator privelages will be ignored by UAC? |