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User Account Control
I have new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate and I transferred all my
programs etc. into the new computer. I continue to get pop up messages every time I try to enter certain programs telling me an unidentified program wants access to my computer. This stops if I disable the User Account control. Is there a way short of that to stop these annoying pop up's? |
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User Account Control
"Clair" wrote: I have new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate and I transferred all my programs etc. into the new computer. I continue to get pop up messages every time I try to enter certain programs telling me an unidentified program wants access to my computer. This stops if I disable the User Account control. Is there a way short of that to stop these annoying pop up's? |
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User Account Control
"Clair" wrote in message
... "Clair" wrote: I have new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate and I transferred all my programs etc. into the new computer. I continue to get pop up messages every time I try to enter certain programs telling me an unidentified program wants access to my computer. This stops if I disable the User Account control. Is there a way short of that to stop these annoying pop up's? The programs in question either A) are doing something administrative (like everytime I run GPMC.MSC) and therefore UAC is asking for confirmation or B) the programs aren't Vista compliant and therefore are doing something they shouldn't be doing. Your choices are to A) live with it, B) upgrade them to Vista compliant or C) turn off UAC. |
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User Account Control
"Seth" wrote in message ... "Clair" wrote in message ... "Clair" wrote: I have new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate and I transferred all my programs etc. into the new computer. I continue to get pop up messages every time I try to enter certain programs telling me an unidentified program wants access to my computer. This stops if I disable the User Account control. Is there a way short of that to stop these annoying pop up's? The programs in question either A) are doing something administrative (like everytime I run GPMC.MSC) and therefore UAC is asking for confirmation or B) the programs aren't Vista compliant and therefore are doing something they shouldn't be doing. Your choices are to A) live with it, B) upgrade them to Vista compliant or C) turn off UAC. Hi all , so how do you turn off UAC , and what are the potential problems of doing that , because these pop-up's are painful Regards Chris |
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User Account Control
"Chris Hughes" wrote in message
... "Seth" wrote in message ... "Clair" wrote in message ... "Clair" wrote: I have new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate and I transferred all my programs etc. into the new computer. I continue to get pop up messages every time I try to enter certain programs telling me an unidentified program wants access to my computer. This stops if I disable the User Account control. Is there a way short of that to stop these annoying pop up's? The programs in question either A) are doing something administrative (like everytime I run GPMC.MSC) and therefore UAC is asking for confirmation or B) the programs aren't Vista compliant and therefore are doing something they shouldn't be doing. Your choices are to A) live with it, B) upgrade them to Vista compliant or C) turn off UAC. Hi all , so how do you turn off UAC , and what are the potential problems of doing that , because these pop-up's are painful Control Panel (Classic view) -- User accounts Potential problems are reduced security. You are making your system vulnerable to software being able to doing administrative tasks without your knowledge. Yes, safety and security are painful... |
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User Account Control
"Seth" wrote: "Chris Hughes" wrote in message ... "Seth" wrote in message ... "Clair" wrote in message ... "Clair" wrote: I have new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate and I transferred all my programs etc. into the new computer. I continue to get pop up messages every time I try to enter certain programs telling me an unidentified program wants access to my computer. This stops if I disable the User Account control. Is there a way short of that to stop these annoying pop up's? The programs in question either A) are doing something administrative (like everytime I run GPMC.MSC) and therefore UAC is asking for confirmation or B) the programs aren't Vista compliant and therefore are doing something they shouldn't be doing. Your choices are to A) live with it, B) upgrade them to Vista compliant or C) turn off UAC. Hi all , so how do you turn off UAC , and what are the potential problems of doing that , because these pop-up's are painful Control Panel (Classic view) -- User accounts Potential problems are reduced security. You are making your system vulnerable to software being able to doing administrative tasks without your knowledge. Yes, safety and security are painful... Thanks for replies...to turn off user account, go to my computer of just computer, then to control panel, then to user accounts and there is an icon for turning user account control off or on. Thanks again. Clair |
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User Account Control; don't switch it off, stay secure and stop popups by changing permissions instead
"Seth" wrote in message
... "Clair" wrote in message ... "Clair" wrote: programs etc. into the new computer. I continue to get pop up messages every time I try to enter certain programs telling me an unidentified program wants access to my computer. This stops if I disable the User Account control. Is there a way short of that to stop these annoying pop up's? The programs in question either A) are doing something administrative (like everytime I run GPMC.MSC) and therefore UAC is asking for confirmation or B) the programs aren't Vista compliant and therefore are doing something they shouldn't be doing. Your choices are to A) live with it, B) upgrade them to Vista compliant or C) turn off UAC. You do have another option. Get a copy of process monitor from sysinternals.com (which is now controlled by Microsoft). http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/processmonitor.mspx Then, start process monitor, and filter for the program you run that causes the problems. Just before the user access prompt, process monitor will show you the request that caused the prompt. All you need to do is modify the permissions on the files. If you have Vista Business or Ultimate, you can generally do this on the properties page. Otherwise you'll need to use the cacls program. In general that will stop the prompts, unless the program really is doing something that needs administrator permissions. If it is, you might like to ask what else it might be doing to your system, once it owns it. Anthony Wieser Wieser Software Ltd |
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User Account Control; don't switch it off, stay secure and stop popups by changing permissions instead
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:10:21 +0100, Anthony Wieser wrote:
All you need to do is modify the permissions on the files. If you have Vista Business or Ultimate, you can generally do this on the properties page. Otherwise you'll need to use the cacls program. In general that will stop the prompts, unless the program really is doing something that needs administrator permissions. If it is, you might like to ask what else it might be doing to your system, once it owns it. One way round this might be to re-install the rogue program into the User area rather than /Program Files/* . -- Chris Game Justify my text? I'm sorry but it has no excuse. |
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User Account Control
Get Tweak UAC http://www.tweak-uac.com/ put it in the "quiet mode".
"Clair" wrote in message ... I have new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate and I transferred all my programs etc. into the new computer. I continue to get pop up messages every time I try to enter certain programs telling me an unidentified program wants access to my computer. This stops if I disable the User Account control. Is there a way short of that to stop these annoying pop up's? |
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User Account Control
Restarting the thread:
Clair, how did you transfer the programs? More than likely you got some kind of strange permissions settings on them when you did that. What I really wanted to comment on though was Seth's pointer to how to disable UAC. While that is the normal way to do it, it is really not a good idea. If you absolutely feel you can't live with the prompts, don't disable UAC. Set the elevation to automatic instead. If you disable UAC you disable protected mode in Internet Explorer, which means you run the web browser as an admin all the time. If you instead set the elevation to automatic at least you retain protected mode in IE. To do that, do the following: 1. Open an elevated command prompt. You can do that by typing "command" in the search box in the start menu, right-clicking the Command Prompt and selecting "Run as administrator..." 2. When the command prompt comes up, cut and paste this command in and hit enter: reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\System /v ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f The change takes effect immediately. If you want to set the behavior back to the default replace "/d 0" with "/d 2". --- Your question may already be answered in Windows Vista Security: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047...otectyourwi-20 "Clair" wrote: I have new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate and I transferred all my programs etc. into the new computer. I continue to get pop up messages every time I try to enter certain programs telling me an unidentified program wants access to my computer. This stops if I disable the User Account control. Is there a way short of that to stop these annoying pop up's? |