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Let's say you want to install a few things and want UAC to stop bugging you while you install them.  Should you turn off UAC and install the apps?  Since that disables UAC's virtualization, it can destabilize things that depend on data written to those virtual locations.  Here's an alternative that keeps all the virtualization ...

The goal I think that most things don't need to require a UAC prompt to install - just install it for that user.  Why not make the MSI so it doesn't prompt and your users get a smoother experience?  (Also, I feel much better installing a program that doesn't require elevation to install - at a minimum I know it's not disabling my ...

This question has come up a fair amount lately.  The short answer is that you don't* - instead you should: first launch an unelevated process have that unelevated process launch an elevated process and wait for it to finish (or use some form of IPC) have that unelevated process then do what you wanted the elevated process to un-elevate ...

On a recent post about BITSAdmin, someone commented on how you needed to be logged into passport to download certain things.  Well I noticed in Brian's blog that there is now an alpha release of the live client SDK.  I haven't tried it out (still busy recruiting in Utah), but it looks promising that this will allow you to login via ...

While reading blog comments about Welcome Center, I came across this entry on how to remove welcome center at first boot. ... With a simple .reg file though, you can kill Windows Welcome Center dead on first boot — simply put the following into your .reg file and save it, run it, or add it to your ...

BITS is Microsoft's background intelligent transfer service.  It's used to transfer files without it bothering you (roughly).  The goal is to use idle bandwidth, so it doesn't affect that streaming radio station that you like, your video chat, etc. The service is relatively full-featured, although there isn't a proper UI that I'm aware ...