Disable UAC for Certain Applications in Vista

Published on February 20, 2008 By damoose In Windows Vista

Found this via Lifehacker and dailyApps and thought there might be others that find UAC annoying, yet don't want to shut it off.

dailyApps Disable UAC for Certain Applications in Vista

There's some steps involved so it's not a point and click type hack.

Comments

ZubaZ

on Feb 20, 2008

Very, very cool
I wonder if that whole process could be incorporated into TweakVista?

damoose

on Feb 21, 2008

So I just set this up for Stardock Central. Seems to work as advertised.

werewolf

on Mar 08, 2008

If you right click on an .exe file > properties > compatibility there is a box which says run as administrator. Once you set this, you are good to go for that program. No external applications needed.

Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but this section doesn't seem to get much action.

CerebroJD

on Mar 09, 2008

Werewolf, dont you still get the UAC prompt if you do that?

iPseudoNym

on Mar 09, 2008

I know I do. Seems the sdcentral.exe calls loader.exe which I also set to "run as administrator" and still get a UAC prompt.

Frankly I've been spending less and less time using Windows since Vista. It's a shame that a great many of the promised new features never made it in and it has been whittled down to a more polished version of XP with the certainly not ready for prime time User Account Control.

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