Tag Archives: UAC

MSI Live Update disables User Account Control

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Aaron Parker

I thought I’d seen just about every dumb thing that a developer could do, but this latest one from MSI is a whopper.. I have an MSI Wind netbook that’s having some shutdown and sleep issues when running Windows 7, … Continue reading →

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Sunday Link Love

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Aaron Parker

Here’s a few articles that I’ve been reading recently and I thought it might be worthwhile sharing them: Kevin Reeuwijk has an article on integrating App-V 4.5 with SCCM 2007 R2, but shows us how to get the best of … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting an Extraneous UAC Prompt

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Aaron Parker

Even though I log onto my domain machine with a standard user account, I’ve been prompted by UAC to elevate when running Registry Editor. After putting up with it for a couple of months, I finally got around to doing … Continue reading →

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Windows Vista SP1 – Streamlining UAC Interaction

Posted on December 18, 2007 by Aaron Parker

Here’s a great example of the improvements to interaction with User Account Control in Windows Vista Service Pack -creating folders in system locations (e.g. the Start Menu, Program Files etc.). This is probably the most ‘in your face’ UAC interaction, … Continue reading →

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TweakVI encourages users to turn off UAC

Posted on March 11, 2007 by Aaron Parker

TweakVI is a tweaking and “optimisation” application from Totalidea that is essentially a front end for a large number of registry settings that you can enable or disable to change the behaviour of features in Windows Vista. The application is … Continue reading →

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