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re: Control UAC Behavior
Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 2:16 pm
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Posted by alex (2812 messages posted)


http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-or-disable-uac-from-the-windows-vista-command-line/


On Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 10:28 am, MLS wrote:
>This is an "annoyances" forum, and at least one small aspect of UAC is annoying.
>
>For reasons I do not understand, whenever I start some software packages like Photoshop
>CS2 UAC pops up a window asking if I want to run the program. Of course I do...I
>use it all the time.
>
>Is there a way to configure UAC so that it recognizes a program as a trusted program
>and automatically launches the program without the window popping up?
>
>I have no beef if I am running a program for the first time. However, after 30+
>times for the same program the UAC window starts to become annoying.
>
>Now, some programs load just fine without the window appearing. I guess they must
>have some kind of UAC compliant signature that tells Vista these programs are OK
>and the window is not needed. But, what about pre-Vista software that may not have
>such a signature built in?
>
>Like I said...an annoyance, and not a gripe. I reserve my gripes for all of my software
>and hardware that will not work with Vista (about 10 important pieces of software
>[telling Vista to use it in XP mode has no effect] and two printers...especially
>my HP Photosmart P1100 that HP has decided not to update its driver to Vista. Sure,
>I can get it to run with other driver profiles, but in the process I loose all of
>the control over prints that the XP driver provided.)




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Control UAC Behavior (MLS: Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 10:28 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Control UAC Behavior (MLS: Sun, Nov 11, 2007, 10:28 am)
*re: Control UAC Behavior (alex: Sun, Nov 11, 2007, 2:16 pm)
*re: Control UAC Behavior (quick69gto: Mon, Nov 12, 2007, 11:43 am)
-re: Control UAC Behavior (Larry: Thu, Nov 15, 2007, 4:18 pm)
-re: Control UAC Behavior (Austin Mann: Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 12:22 am)
*re: Control UAC Behavior (Austin Mann: Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 12:27 am)
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