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UAC permissions prompt

Tags: Networking, Security, Windows

Hi All,

I have two thoughts here that I’m hoping can get insight in one shot. I have a client on their Windows 10 machine, they get a UAC prompt for permissions when they
One, try to added themselves to the user permissions on a folder when they hit “properties”
Two, they try to modify their IP address settings on their network adaptor to test connection

I know these are two different settings but they get the same UAC prompt, so I’m trying to figure out if this is a registry setting forced by GPO or something else.

As an example of the prompt they get for the network adaptor settings, I found this article How can a user change network adapter properties without admin permission? – Microsoft Q&A, but it looks like maybe there are steps missing.

Any insight is appreciated.

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This is normal, expected behavior…

In reply to UAC permissions prompt

If the user is running in a non-administrator account, they will have to have the admin account name
and password prior to any system level changes being applied. This is for security purposes, and it
helps prevent accidental changes, deletions, additions etc that may not be desired.

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