UAC stands for User Account Control and is a security system present and enabled by default in Microsoft Windows (since Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008) running most tasks as non-administrator and requiring the user to confirm the actions that require administrator privileges.
Questions tagged [uac]
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UAC turns off on Windows 10 when log in to the AD domain
When my Windows 10 logs in to the AD domain of our company, UAC are turned off. Which is annoying and prevent apps from Windows Store to run.
This happens to everyone in our company. This is not happening with prevoius versions of Windows (7, 8),…
Petr Gašparík
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Create a local Windows user with high integrity level
A Windows user which is member of Administrators groups has 2 Access tokens:
One with medium integrity level.
One with high integrity level.
The first one is used by default. When an application needs an high integrity level, an UAC consent popup…
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Why some computers let basic domain user administrators
I do not understand why on some computers windows doesn't prompt for admin credentials to do a software installation for example, no matter of the user privilege.
Computers are on windows 7. Some of them prompt correctly and some don't.
I checked…
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You don't currently have permission to access this folder. Windows 10 User Authentication Error Dialog Box
I recently was given Admin rights on my machine at work.
Unfortunately, when I am going through the directory structure I kept getting this message box:
If I hit continue, I need to change the security permissions and need to add my username in the…
Abuzar Ghafari
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How can I block the group policy from disabling uac?
Where I work, our group policy disables UAC for the handful of users that don't know how to make certain applications work with UAC enabled. I don't need UAC to be disabled. Is there a way I can set permissions on keys in the registry or something…
Roberto Murphy
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