Ronnie Vernon MVP

Heinzi

Even if you start Windows Explorer with admin privileges, there are still
restricted areas where certain functions are not allowed. Trying to force
this will affect virtualization and compatibility for some programs.

If you want to create shortcuts or make other changes to the users Start
Menu, go here:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Heinrich Moser" <usenet@heinzi.at> wrote in message
news:87ircqilvz.fsf@garak.heinzi.at...
> Hi!
>
> UAC is a nice feature, but I've noticed two things with Windows
> Explorer and UAC that I don't like at all:
>
> 1. It's not possible to start Windows Explorer in "run as
> Administrator" mode. Well, you can start it like that (and confirm
> the UAC dialog), but it's still running in restricted mode (popping
> up a UAC dialog for every single file system change outside your
> home directory).
>
> 2. When you try to use Windows Explorer to create a shortcut to some
> program outside your home directory (for example in
> ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\..., which seems to me to
> be a quite common location to create shortcuts), you don't get a
> UAC prompt but rather an error ("Windows cannot create a shortcut
> here...").
>
> My question: Is there some way to change this (some registry key,
> group policy setting or updated explorer.exe) without deactivating
> UAC?
>
> Greetings,
> Heinzi