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It appears that the uproar that occurred during my discussion on Vista UAP on the weekend is nothing compared with other discussions that have been taking place around the web. Tonight Joseph sent me a link which actually explains how to turn off "those annoying security warning dialogs". Well it doesn't actually turn them off, it just allows Administrator users to run as Admin.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000571.html
In a nutshell:
[..] even if you are logged in as Administrator, you're not getting Adminstrator rights. There's a way to turn this feature off by the way:
- Run gpEdit.msc
- Go to: Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies | Security Options
- User Account Control: Run all users including Administrators as standard users - Disable
- User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt - No Prompt
Then log off and log back on.
I'm sure that this will make many people very happy and others.... well, let's just say that you can't please all of the people all of the time. As for me: I think that this time I will actually attempt to make good my promise of running as a Standard User.
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UAP
posted by
JosephCooney
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4/30/2006 10:26:38 AM
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Just to be fair, I'm not advocating doing this - I just know you copped a bit of flack over this at codecamp. I think the problem with this isn't UAP, its apps requiring administrative privileges to run.
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Apps that require admin privileges
posted by
Darren Neimke
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4/30/2006 10:49:41 AM
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I agree Joseph. I think that when you try to run under UAP that you start to get some insight of which teams at Microsoft do not run that way.
I hate to say this but, because of how reliant we are on MS produced software, the trend to running as Standard User will have to come from Microsoft first.