UAC on x64 Home Premium - can't take control

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notech

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I've read the tutorial and have applied the security settings to full control, run as admin, special permissions to add my user account as owner, and it still pops up the UAC dim screen request to allow it.

I read at MS where advanced UAC settings are not available on Home Premium. Apparently i don't even have policy editor in home premium. (secpol.msc)

the prog i'd like to disable UAC for is Core Temp Monitor.

any suggestions?

appreciate it!
 

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Personally I just disable UAC. It has never done anything useful in my time using it, and it pops up more often for me than most people because I often am editing advanced options.

If you get it often, you might as well disable it. It'll make life easier.

- Insert people trying to justify UAC here -

- Insert me not caring here -
 

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SIW2 said:
Hi,

You may like to try this - works perfectly for me on x64. If you do not wish to send info. back to Norton, untick the Submissions box during installation

User Access Control - Vista User Account Control - UAC | Norton Labs

Hope it helps

SIW2
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thx i'll give it a test drive tommorow. i'm not a fan of symantec though. about a month ago my old laptop got a nasty virus after doing a prescan with symantec (updated) corp client. even when i double clicked the file after a clean scan, it gave no warning. hosed my partitions.

what's weird is i've used corp client for years with no mishaps and the virus was from 06 and in it's database.

here's another one i'm going to readup on reviews and maybe test drive:

Disable annoying Vista UAC popups with TweakUAC (FREE)
 

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I don't use other Norton products but here's one that works well - it allows you to select which individual apps. get a uac pop up, and which don't . Much safer than turning uac off altogether - it will pop up for things you haven't previously ok'd.

The Norton UAC tool allows an application to run with silently-elevated privileges only in a specific context, one previously approved by the user with the "don't ask again" check box selected. This means that there is a difference between regedit.exe launched from the start->run box, regedit.exe originating from a shortcut double-click, and regedit.exe launched from a double click on a .reg file (and the context actually changes with each .reg file), and regedit.exe launched by an application (malicious or not). Given the contextual awareness of Norton UAC tool's automatic responses, the Norton UAC tool provides a usability improvement over Vista's default UAC prompts, while maintaining obvious security improvements in the Vista kernel (such as isolation, file/registry virtualization, and user interface privilege isolation) that are all disabled when UAC is disabled.
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http://www.nortonlabs.com/inthelab/uac.php

SIW2
 

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    nvidia 9500GT 1gb
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    intel i5-8400
    Motherboard
    gigabyte b365m ds3h
    Memory
    ballistix 2x8gb 3200
You could always make a task in the tasksch to run the things you want as highest privileges then just run that on demand via a shortcut?

warning   Warning
You should encrypt the shortcuts or deny standard users access. Especially if one leads to a command prompt or some other thing a malicious user would love to get with admin perms.


I also found killing the explorer and opening again from an elevated command prompt runs everything you do as an admin ;)
 

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