User Account Control - Annoying!

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I disabled UAC still I have to Right click and run as admin for gain full access. For example with Command Prompt, i was trying to run bcd command it gave me access deined then I had to elevate the cmd to gain full access which is ridicules.
 

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Navigate to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

In the right pane set EnableLUA to 0.

Solves all the UAC problems.
 

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Also, by changing that registry setting, all of the Metro Apps (except IE and a few others) quit working.
 

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mikedl said:
Also, by changing that registry setting, all of the Metro Apps (except IE and a few others) quit working.
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That appears to be right. I just checked Alarms and Weather. Alarms didn't work any which way lol, but weather seemed to be affected by the value of that key. So, yes anybody who's into metro apps should tread cautiously. Thanks Mike.

MS seems to have gone to paranoid lengths to prevent peeps from disabling UAC as long as one wishes to use the metro "goodies". Combine that with the (yet not fully functional i think) OS wide smartscreen and the inbuilt defender. Interesting thinking.
 

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So far didn't use that key because I don't have the Curr entVersion (I don't know why). Hehehe. Anyway, I disable my UAC through user accounts. UAC never bothered me again.
 

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I could never understand the want to turn off UAC. It's there to help prevent unauthorized changes to your machine. I also can't see the relationship between running a program at an elevated privilege and UAC off. Can someone educate me?
 

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Sorry but I too am in the "its annoying" camp.
 

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aem said:
I could never understand the want to turn off UAC. It's there to help prevent unauthorized changes to your machine. I also can't see the relationship between running a program at an elevated privilege and UAC off. Can someone educate me?
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I see it as a warining only, aem, and an irritating one at that.
For standard computer users, it probably has its uses, as such. But for the average user who has found his way on to, and contributes, to , sites such as this, it remains an irritant. The majority are aware of the (possible) consequences of running an unknown .exe file on our computers.
 

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Yes but how does running an app (as to install it) in admin mode relate to turning UAC off? Does turning UAC off make every account an admin account?
 

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That's strange, because I disabled it and I don't have to.
 

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aem said:
Yes but how does running an app (as to install it) in admin mode relate to turning UAC off? Does turning UAC off make every account an admin account?
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not necessarily makes every account an admin account. This is basic windows stuff, even though standard users will not require administrator password to do things that would otherwise require UAC, there are still some other restrictions on standard users such as changing some important system settings that are still not available.
 

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jhgenius01 said:
aem said:
Yes but how does running an app (as to install it) in admin mode relate to turning UAC off? Does turning UAC off make every account an admin account?
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not necessarily makes every account an admin account. This is basic windows stuff, even though standard users will not require administrator password to do things that would otherwise require UAC, there are still some other restrictions on standard users such as changing some important system settings that are still not available.
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Can you give evidence that turning off UAC would make an account an admin account (in any capacity) to be able to run installations that requires admin privileges?
 

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aem said:
Can you give evidence that turning off UAC would make an account an admin account (in any capacity) to be able to run installations that requires admin privileges?
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I was just wondering the same thing. Surely turning UAC off would still require an admin password to run an app with admin privileges?
Turning off UAC != changing user access privileges.
 

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Actually Avalon, turning of UAC would lower the security settings of your machine which would allow for certain security prompts to be suppresed. In this case the prompt for putting in required credentials to either run a program or access network shares. Doing so will leave your machine more exposed. If the program requires admin privedges to run (as when a program access the regsitry) you will still require to exercise admin rights to run it..or do so without any issues.
 

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aem said:
Actually Avalon, turning of UAC would lower the security settings of your machine which would allow for certain security prompts to be suppresed. In this case the prompt for putting in required credentials to either run a program or access network shares. Doing so will leave your machine more exposed. If the program requires admin privedges to run (as when a program access the regsitry) you will still require to exercise admin rights to run it..or do so without any issues.
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Yes, I do know what you mean, but it still doesn't change the ability of a user to run a program in administrator mode (or so I thought, at least).
I frankly don't see why they don't have a unified system... Hopefully SmartScreen will do something about this, because if you're going to turn off UAC, you might as well make all accounts administrators, right?
 

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Maybe turning UAC off is restricting the permission to trusted installer? Because that's the only thing I can think about that would restrict us from gaining control over system files and other admin related stuff.
 

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Alas! Having the same problem, will check for the registry key settings & will update.
 

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