Comments on: Helpful Tip: Disable UAC Prompt for an Application

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:24:56 +0000

This method makes the process run without elevation, such that operations requiring elevation fail. For example, Visual Studio wants to be elevated and by default will complain if it is not. I turned on “Run this program as an administrator” in devenv.exe’s Compatibility tab and applied these steps. Result: spawned programs (like cmd.exe) fail to spawn. Process Monitor shows that the exit code indicates that they require elevation, meaning Visual Studio is running without elevated privileges.

I’m going to try the method at [winhelponline.com] instead.

By: OldManDeath

OldManDeath — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:57:30 +0000

Ryan wrote:

blaszta wrote:
10 megs of file and bunch of complicated steps? Me, I just install TweakVista (free from Stardock), go to Security, and check “Medium-low securiy” - remove all prompts for elevation. That’s it.. And I can kiss the UAC prompt goodbye.. for good.
That is one way of doing things, but personally I like seeing the elevation prompts because it assures me that viruses and such would not be able to do anything malicious without me first seeing a prompt.

That is until the virus coders figure out a way around it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:22:56 +0000

blaszta wrote:

10 megs of file and bunch of complicated steps? Me, I just install TweakVista (free from Stardock), go to Security, and check “Medium-low securiy” - remove all prompts for elevation. That’s it.. And I can kiss the UAC prompt goodbye.. for good.

That is one way of doing things, but personally I like seeing the elevation prompts because it assures me that viruses and such would not be able to do anything malicious without me first seeing a prompt.

By: blaszta

blaszta — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:45:06 +0000

10 megs of file and bunch of complicated steps?

Me, I just install TweakVista (free from Stardock), go to Security, and check “Medium-low securiy” – remove all prompts for elevation.

That’s it.. And I can kiss the UAC prompt goodbye.. for good.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:28:53 +0000

No problem. I can’t say that I ever expected this trick to be even the slightest bit easy. If it was a simple one-step process then that could make me question the security of UAC all together.

By: Tonino

Tonino — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:21:53 +0000

Instead of posting a neat way to do it they have to do it this way…
That’s why Vista is such a worthless piece of shit.

Anyway, thanks a lot for the tip Ryan, I’m sure it will be useful to lots of people.