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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.

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Find out which account disabled UAC

Someone or something recently disabled UAC on a critical server and it is now asking for a reboot (which can not happen). Is there an event in the logs that will tell me which account disabled this? And can I re-enable it without rebooting to get…
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Run application under Administrator when UAC is disabled

When the UAC is disabled, an application is launched in regular mode (i.e., it does not take into account the manifest) and the credentials window (for the administrator's login/password) does not appear. Is there any way to force the Windows OS…
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AD: Domain admin needs elevation

I'm trying to change settings on my freshly installed server. I've added it in my domain but I cannot figure out why I keep getting messages like this: "The requested action needs elevation". The user I'm trying this with is Domain Admin, added in…
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Windows Server 2008, "The requested operation requires elevation"

Sorry for the newbe question, but I'm a developer who hasn't touch a Windows Server in years. A recent project has required me to setup and configure a development VM running Windows Server 2008, IIS 7, and SQL Server 2008 Express. I need to run…
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How could I make a MsAccess Frontend and Mysql Backend more user aware?

I have a distributed MsAccess front-end database which uses a mysql backend. It uses the Windows System DSN ODBC connections to connect to the server. All my Linked tables refer to that ODBC connection. The thing is though, they all use the same…
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Disable UAC And Windows Security Center alerts under Vista Business

We have a few Windows Vista Business with User Account Control turned off (the reason is because those machines need to run a series of programs that do not work with UAC, the boxes have no Internet connectivity so this is not a security problem).…
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How can I allow a limited user to change the system time in Windows 7 without disabling UAC?

I need to allow a couple specific users rights to change their local system time in Windows 7 x64. I have already assigned them the right through group policy using the "Change the system time" user right assignment but UAC is preventing them from…
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Quickbooks 2011 now requires UAC logn, but the currently logged on user and password WORKS FINE?

I have a real strange one... I do IT work for an accounting firm, and because they have such a diverse group of clients, they have many different versions of Quickbooks installed at once. All employees run as "standard Users" (ie, not admin or…
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What is the relationship (if any) between UAC and ACLs on Windows platforms?

What is the relationship between UAC and ACLs on Windows platforms? Are these two separate security schemes? Or is one a superset of the other? Intuitively I would expect them to be related but I've been trying to figure this out for a few hours now…
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logman command at startup requires elevation

I am trying to setup Performance Counters on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server and have successfully setup the counters. The problem is that I need to manually start the counters each time the server is restarted. I found a neat trick to add the…
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Running Visual Studio 2010 in a University Campus

We have just installed Windows 7 Enterprise x64 in one of our computer labs being used by students for programming. However, when we installed Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate on the machines, we found that to even launch the application (devenv.exe),…
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UAC-account-users can't see their mounted network-drives

I wrote a few login batches in the Group Policy Management which mount specified devices to specified usergroups. The batches work as they should as long UAC is disabled. My problem is that the UAC-account-users can't see their mounted…
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How to run a program marked as requiring elevation via UAC without actual elevation on Windows 7?

I have a program, specifically an installer, which is marked is requiring elevation with highestAvailable approach. I am using an administrator account with UAC at the highest level. Is it possible to run this program without giving it…
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Is there a correct way to turn off UAC, User Account Control, in Windows Server 2008?

Is there a correct way to turn off UAC, User Account Control, in Windows Server 2008? I have found an article at Microsoft explaining the various settings. It looks like it is just a matter of disabling "User Account Control: Run all administrators…
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"You need to confirm this operation" message when trying to delete a file

I'm trying to delete a few files that I created, and I have full permissions on, on a Windows 2008 system. The files are within a folder that I created so they are not system files of any kind. The message box that pops up when I try to delete the…
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