hi penbrandt - have you tried running the programs in admin mode? - find the exe's or shortcuts, right-click on them and 'run as administrator' - this should sort out your uac woes.
*edit* reading your signature, ccatlett1984, are you saying that you would intentionally offend a poster for bad english? that's not very nice - and you've missed a full stop at the end of your sentence in the above post.