Comments on: More secure way to disable UAC. Without losing Protected Mode IE

By: trr

trr — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:38:09 +0000

I want to turn UAC back on. I turned it off because otherwise I couldn’t open a website, download anything, etc. unless I switched to my admin account. SO how do I turn UAC back on and not have these problems? Is it just IE’s Protected Mode causing me the grief? How do I turn that off?

By: DUIT Dale

DUIT Dale — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:29:23 +0000

For those of you who think the the UAC prevents malware infections – read the explanation at the link below. It apparently doesn’t and never was designed for this folklore/urban myth-like characterization. After doing some research today on how to disable UAC and also keep the Security Center icon from annoyingly popping up afterwards I read this post from Jesper J – security guru: https://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2007/03/01/confusion-about-vista-features-what-uac-really-is.aspx

I’m going with running UAC with elevated permissions and unfortunately disabling the Security Center notifications through Control Panel. Damn poorly coded LOB app; good news is next version won’t need this reduced security configuration.

Brandon thanks for your posting and keep up the great work on that Start++ thingy. It rocks!

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By: Offsprung

Offsprung — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:12:07 +0000

True I have not used my ultimate that much yet and only installed a couple of apps. Thought I read in the uac troubleshooting that an app needed a cert. The little I have been doing is normal every day functions that I do numerous times each day and received a uac accept or deny. I could understand on a normal user account, but I grant admin for a reason to administrate. Reminds me of a mac asking for a pwd twice to do everything when attached to active directory.
So I will hold off on this change to make sure and only diable complex file permissions my second peeve that I found after its install. I was glad I chose dual boot so I can still use xp pro. I think it was that vista dual boot man that complained so you may be right, maybe it is just win asking its admin are you sure you wish to admin!… I guess the m$ logic is since a lot of people grant admin to all we’ll just nag each time for everyone.
Question, if I stup a standard user and did a run as (with password) does uac still nag?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:53:09 +0000

Offsprung -

You shouldn’t see UAC dialogs often at all, and they show up regardless of whether an application is code-signed with a certificate. A “trusted” list doesn’t make any sense as it completely defeats the purpose of UAC.

If you use an application regularly that requires elevation and shouldn’t, you should complain to the developer.

By: Offsprung

Offsprung — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:25:38 +0000

I find it very hard to believe that anyone puts up with win asking permission to run every function and every
program that someone has used for years. Who’d have guessed it is far WORSE than that mac commercial.
Wait for some free or older app to get a secure cert? Least they could have done is give us a trusted list option.
Would be nice if you had an undo to go with this.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:18:07 +0000

lol, they’re the same person (same IP address). Weird that someone would make such a stupid comment, let alone make it twice.

By: arteekay

arteekay — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:57:37 +0000

jerryd and luc, did you actually read the post? It’s hard to believe you did and still managed to write what you did.

By: jerryd

jerryd — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:38:05 +0000

allowing automatic elevation without prompting means every program/malware/exploit will grant the full privileges automatically and this is BAD! Please, don’t apply this stupid Brandon’s trick and don’t disable the UAC

By: luc

luc — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:29:00 +0000

Elevate without prompting = a malware or all software can automatically have the full privileges = you’re stupid!

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» 0×1D7 - UAC by Jordan Hofker — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:38:50 +0000

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By: xxdesmus

xxdesmus — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:05:48 +0000

What about an undo reg file?

By: Brandon Clinger

Brandon Clinger — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:28:50 +0000

Oh and BTW, I am apart of that minority who doesn’t mind UAC, and will leave it enabled.

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By: Luther

Luther — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:50:07 +0000

You convinced me – I’ll restore UAC and enable elevation without prompting.

Now a little bit off topic:

In Vista search I’m missing some functionality found in WDS: the ability to search within preview. You know: to find some word in highlighted and previewed document I have to open it and search in associated application. In WDS I just pressed F4 and…

Is there any chance that this functionality will be included in Vista SP1?