impossible to change privilege level of an app ?

hackerman1 said:

hi !

about secpol: doesn´t that change with the UAC-settings ?
i have UAC at max. (top).

Apologies for not being clearer, let me try again. :)
I understand that you began to receive a UAC prompt when starting A2 and this was not previously the case. Secpol is the security policy, the entries referring to User Account Control (UAC) 'do' affect the way that UAC behaves. By asking you about this I'm trying to ascertain whether your security policy has changed and if this is what is causing the prompt when you run the software.

To me, your security policy doesn't match mine and I've never changed anything manually. So why is it so? I wonder...

• Have you changed this previously?
• Did (for an unknown reason) mine install with different default settings to yours?
• Has either of our security policies changed automatically since install (due to 3rd party programs changing the settings, new security templates, Windows Update, domain policy, group policy etc)

If yours has changed, it may explain why UAC is prompting you. Although keep in mind our other talk about tokens and folders that require higher permission. You may be experiencing the result of a combination of issues. As we rule out each one I hope to be left with the answer.

Ah, I didn't know which UAC settings you meant. I think I understand you now.
To clarify. if you change the UAC settings to the "top" of the slide bar, i.e. "Always Notify"?

Then the answer is "yes", secpol settings for UAC do change. I've now changed mine, see the print. I'll leave mine this way for a while for some hands on experience in how it changes my day to day usage.

Will let you know if I learn anything.

The ones in Secpol that I was talking about. lol..

The way I understand things is the settings in the UAC slider set "when" the UAC is enforced - Program activity only, User activity and Program activity, Etc. whilst the Secpol settings control how the prompt needs to be actioned - password required for admin, Secure desktop etc..