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UAC Confusion! Why one and not the other?
Hi,
I'm a little confused as to why the UAC box appears on some programs EVERY TIME I use them, but not others.
To use a specific example...my LIVE Messenger (MSN) asks everytime I click the taskbar icon if I want to allow it to run and yet, when I launch Skype from the taskbar it just opens without any prompts.
At some point in the recent past I think I used the compatibility mode for XP on MSN and/or ticked the Run As Administrator box too. After that the icon has the little blue and yellow shield (is there a proper name for this?). Prior to this MSN opened, like Skype, without prompting.
I have unchecked both the compatibility mode and Administration in the MSN properties but the shield remains and the UAC prompt still appears every time which is a little tedious!
Is there a way to make it go back to just opening without disabling UAC across the board? Or at least to get rid of that shield?
I'm playing Far Cry at the moment which also has the shield on the shortcut icon, it'd be nice if this didn't prompt me every time I play too!
Any advice would be welcome as it seems silly to me to have to do this for programs I use every day!
Thanks for reading
Mark