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Old 12-22-2006   #3 (permalink)
petermcwerner


 
 

Re: How to declare a program as "trusted"

A damn nuisance. The alternative of turning off UAC completely is not a good
one either but I may be forced to do so because it is too disturbing and time
consuming to continuously give authorizations.

>What would stop programs from
> changing this setting them self?


For instance by asking for my password. Can't UAC distinguish between my
input as user and what the program tries to do?



"Kerry Brown" wrote:

> You can't. It would defeat the purpose of uac. What would stop programs from
> changing this setting them self?
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> "petermcwerner" <petermcwerner@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > How can I declare a program I know as "trusted" so that UAC does not
> > always
> > ask me for authorization to run it?
> > Thanks for suggestions

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