Solved Remove shield icon

[hippye]

I have a nice black and white custom desktop theme going on and I want to remove the elevated icon shield from a program icon. It's the yellow and blue icon. I had a problem running rainmeter and had to run it in winxp compatability mode and that shield icon is harshing my desktop.

 

[Brink]

Hello Hippye,

You cannot remove the sheild by default. However, you might try creating a new elevated shortcut for it instead as a workaround.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[hippye]

Thanks Brinks,

That did the trick, my desktop is almost perfect now.

 

[Brink]

You're welcome Hippye. I hope you get your desktop the way you want it.

 

[CoolHipDude]

Hello Hippye,

You cannot remove the sheild by default. However, you might try creating a new elevated shortcut for it instead as a workaround.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks Brink for that tip. I will try that with Ultimate Windows Tweaker (which too requires administrator privileges, it seems). I would be most interested to know how you came across the tip in the first place. Thanks a mill.

CHD

 

[Brink]

Hello CHD, and welcome to Seven Forums.

From the Note box at the top of the tutorial. I hope it works well for you.

   Note

Special thanks to OEM for pointing this out, and the previous Vista version by DMEX.

 

[CoolHipDude]

hello chd, and welcome to seven forums.

From the note box at the top of the tutorial. I hope it works well for you.

   Note

special thanks to oem for pointing this out, and the previous vista version by dmex.

it works!!!! You rock!!!!

by the way, I have just created a new 'How-Tos' folder in FF
and I have bookmarked your elevated shortcut tip in it, along
with other very useful how-tos in it, for future reference.

chd

 

[Brink]

That's great news CHD, I'm happy to hear it helped.

 

[Talha Ghaffar]

How can we remove the (yellow-blue) UAC icon that overlay on our executable files without changing UAC Settings or compromising on security? Also how to avoid that pop-up message that says you need administrative writes to continue.

 

[Luckystar]

How can we remove the (yellow-blue) UAC icon that overlay on our executable files without changing UAC Settings or compromising on security? Also how to avoid that pop-up message that says you need administrative writes to continue.

Hello Ghaffer, welcome to forums.

Did the above turorial not work -- http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11949-elevated-program-shortcut-without-uac-prompt-create.html


Try it if you have'nt doen so yet and let us know how you got on.

Lucky

 

[Talha Ghaffar]

actually problem here is we develope .exe files for our clints , our clints work on windows 7 , there are 100s of users who work at different places we cannot ask them to turn off there security settings . Also it looks odd to even to ask them to do right click and hit on "Run As Administrator". we want that our application should start execution just after double click, also we dont want to give them our product with UAC Sheild overlayed it looks really odd. is there any solution for our problem.??
i have done changes in manifest file that solved the problem for administrative rights but that odd(ugly) UCA sheild icon is still overlayed

 

[Talha Ghaffar]

actually problem here is we develope .exe files for our clints , our clints work on windows 7 , there are 100s of users who work at different places we cannot ask them to turn off there security settings . Also it looks odd to even to ask them to do right click and hit on "Run As Administrator". we want that our application should start execution just after double click, also we dont want to give them our product with UAC Sheild overlayed it looks really odd. is there any solution for our problem.??
i have done changes in manifest file that solved the problem for administrative rights but that odd(ugly) UCA sheild icon is still overlayed

Talha Ghaffar;1481037]actually problem here is we develope .exe files for our clints , our clints work on windows 7 , there are 100s of users who work at different places we cannot ask them to turn off there security settings . Also it looks odd to even to ask them to do right click and hit on "Run As Administrator". we want that our application should start execution just after double click, also we dont want to give them our product with UAC Sheild overlayed it looks really odd. is there any solution for our problem.??
i have done changes in manifest file that solved the problem for administrative rights but that odd(ugly) UCA sheild icon is still overlayed

 

[TMHKR]

Alright people, after days of trying various methods, I believe I've found the ultimate solution to remove that annoying shield icon. It's not difficult, and it works perfectly for me.

The following procedure removes the shield overlay only from icons and Start Menu items, which means that the shield overlay will not be removed from Control Panel applets and context menus. Here's how to do it, once and for all:

1. Make sure the UAC (User Account Control) is disabled by moving its slider to the lowest position.
2. Open the Command Prompt. You'll find it somewhere in the Start Menu.
3. Type the following commands, pressing Enter after each line:

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a
shutdown /r

NOTE: The last command will restart your computer, so make sure you save your work BEFORE executing those 4 lines above!

If you ever experience the shield icon again (I believe that's impossible now), just repeat the third step. Good luck!

 

[thibbea]

Thanks TMHKR, it Works great

 

[lockoncomputer]

In case anyone else comes across this and wants a real solution; I found the REAL cause of this issue:

The "C:\users\public\public desktop" folder permission contained an entry for a particular user that denied all permissions except "Read". I have no idea how that line got in there but removing it and logging in the user solved the problem!!

PS, I also ran the Rebuild Icon Cache batch file which is found here Icon Cache - Rebuild - Windows 7 Help Forums in order to remove the admin shields from the icons. This is just a cosmetic step though.