Solved Odd behavior from UAC — permissions

[Sammy888]

Odd behavior from UAC — permissions

I usually have a third party firewall but I uninstalled it as it's no longer supported. As such, I just now use Windows Firewall.

In doing so, my UAC settings are set to "Don't notify me when I make changes to Windows settings". I'm a user and given full Admin rights (it's my computer, lol). The slider is set one below to "always notify".

The first nuance is the UAC panel keeps on opening up in the top left corner. I want it to appear on my middle of my screen. I am using a 31.5 inch monitor. Even though when I move the panel to the centre of my screen, once I re-open it, it defaults back to the upper left corner.


Secondly, is UAC's behavior. It asks me to approve access for many apps when I try to open them like EVERYTHING search, CCleaner, Mozilla Thunderbird, and more. Fortunately, it doesn't ask me each time when I open Chrome. Whenever possible, I have selected in the "security" tab or "advanced" to "run as administrator" OR right click on the shortcut/actually exe file and "run as administrator" I still get the annoying UAC popup.

Finally, when I want to copy or create a file/folder to C drive, I am prompted with a message that moving requires Admin rights and to allow it (not the usual UAC prompt).

Should I log in as "Administrator" I don't have these issues. I don't know, perhaps my UAC is corrupt and needs rebuilding? Maybe my User Profile is corrupt?

 

[samuria]

Are you logged In with an admin account uac will come up if your doing anything with that may effect system

 

[Sammy888]

Are you logged In with an admin account uac will come up if your doing anything with that may effect system

I'm the only user and yes, I gave myself Admin rights/access via Control Panel to keep things separate from the official Administrator profile and my user profile. For example, my Username is Sammy and my account "type" is Administrator. There's another profile called "Administrator" which I didn't specifically create during Windows installation.

 

[Sammy888]

I should also add that I used this application to see if it would solve my "privileges" issues. It's called Windows Repair from Tweaking dot com. But it did not.

 

[Sammy888]

Just an update to those who might be having a similar issue as myself.

Apparently, UAC behaving annoyingly is quite normal.

There are ways to control the prompts to mute the prompts for specific applications. This link has some suggestions. Another option is to use "task scheduler".