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Video: Bypass Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) prompt

September 22, 2008, 10:32 AM PDT

Takeaway: Windows Vista’s User Account Control (UAC) was designed to improve security. But, constant UAC prompts can also be a real pain. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows you how Task Scheduler and a custom desktop shortcut let you run UAC-restricted programs without encountering those annoying UAC prompts.

September 22, 2008, 10:26 AM PDT | Length:00:05:27

Windows Vista’s User Account Control (UAC) was designed to improve security. But, when you’re running Vista with anything other than administrator the constant UAC prompts can be a real pain. In this IT Dojo video, I’ll show you how Task Scheduler and a custom desktop shortcut let you run UAC-restricted programs without encountering those annoying UAC prompts.

After watching the video, you can learn more about managing Windows Vista’s UAC feature by reading Greg Shultz’s article, “Run UAC restricted programs without the UAC prompt”–the basis for this video.

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Bill Detwiler is Head Technology Editor of TechRepublic. Previously, he worked as a Support Tech and IT Manager in the social research and energy industries.

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Won't work for Standard User?

techrepublic@... 10th Jan 2009

I have followed the steps in your video thinking that this was just the ticket to get around a problem of a certain program not being able to run via a standard user. Well, I can't get it to work. Actually, it may be working but not the way I had hoped. I created the task to run the needed program and then created the shortcut. When I click on it nothing really happens from the standard user's screen. If I check task manager, and have it show processes for all users, The task is running via the admin's user account but nothing shows up under the standard user's account. So, that does me NO good. Any ideas for letting programs run for standard users without UAC asking for an admin's password? Do I have to turn off UAC?

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RE: Video: Run UAC restricted programs without the UAC prompt

Richard Dokter 2nd Dec 2008

No, not annoying.
Big deal, so you have to click on a UAC dialog box.
What do you do if you are browsing the internet?
You click hunderds of times and nobody's complaining wink

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I'm finally using Vista x64 now, and so far the UAC...

JCitizen 16th Oct 2008

is not a problem at all. I can finally ditch Commodo Firewall Pro as I feel this is way sufficient for what I'm concerned about.

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