Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Moving the UAC slider all the way down does not completely disable UAC

If you drag the slider in the UAC control panel to the bottom setting, you won't see any more UAC prompts, and you might think the feature is disabled. That's not quite the case. Though any application that requests elevation will get it without your intervention, the applications still have to ask. If, for example, you run the command prompt as normal, you won't be able to perform administrative actions. Rather, you still need to right-click it and choose "run as administrator," at which point you'll get an administrative command window on your screen with no UAC prompt.

Further reading: my Super User answer.

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