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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 ...

I mentioned recently that I was the new owner of the UAC UI (from the dev side).  Well, today I found that Raymond Chen's blog has brought up the topic of what the colors mean.  I hadn't even really noticed that the dialogs changed much before taking ownership of the code, and due to the ease of repurposing attacks there is little ...