Customizing UAC for some programs

To the best of my knowledge, there is only one setting. If others know of a way of setting one program differently from the others, I would be interested, too.

I don't think so, without modifying files within windows itself.

What is your UAC level at right now?

Hello Meebers,

Sorry, but there is not a safe list with UAC. However, you could use the tutorial below to create elevated shortcuts with Task Scheduler to run the programs elevated without a UAC prompt and still have UAC turned on.

Elevated Program Shortcut without UAC Prompt - Create

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Brink said:

Hello Meebers,

Sorry, but there is not a safe list with UAC. However, you could use the tutorial below to create elevated shortcuts with Task Scheduler to run the programs elevated without a UAC prompt and still have UAC turned on.

Elevated Program Shortcut without UAC Prompt - Create

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Shawn,
Your tuts are truly amazing; almost one for every situation.

After I installed my special Garmin software on my PC, I was bugged by UAC every time I started the app. I simply right clicked on the program icon, selected properties, then on the securities tab. At the bottom of the securities tab I un-checked "Run this Program as an Administrator"
Problem solved. I'm not sure, but I think if the program is installed from the administrator account, it will default to run as administrator with UAC.

From a principal standpoint, the reason that you don't really want a UAC safe whitelist of applications is that you should want that application to warn you when it needs to elevate privs. Looking at it a different way, what would stop a hacker from modifying the UAC safe whitelist and then inserting their application which would then auto elevate without you knowing it and potentially wreak havoc on your machine?

My firewall

Also, the UAC safelist would probably trigger a UAC notification.