UAC Tweaking

Hi,


Is it possible to tweak UAC in a way that everything is disabled,
*except* the protected mode in IE7? That is one feature I find useful,
the others I can do without.


Regards,
Mark Veldhuis.

I don't know to a way. Unfortunately, disable UAC and you also disable
protected mode in IE 7.0

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"Mark Veldhuis" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
>
> Is it possible to tweak UAC in a way that everything is disabled,
> *except* the protected mode in IE7? That is one feature I find useful,
> the others I can do without.
>
>
> Regards,
> Mark Veldhuis.

Kind of ...

If you go into the Local Security Policy MMC under Administrative Tools in
the control panel, browse to Local Policies and click on Security Options,
and then change the option labeled "User Account Control: Behavior of the
elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode" to "Elevate
Without Prompting", then UAC will behave like this:

- Programs that are marked as requiring admin privileges will automatically
run with admin
- Programs that are NOT marked as needing admin privs will NOT receive admin
privs

So, you will still run into circumstances where you will have to work around
UAC (i.e. where a program requires admin permissions but it is not marked as
such), but this gives you the best of both worlds.


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Hi,

In article <85AE19BB-1A32-49CF-B58B-2773AEF58A62@microsoft.com>,
JimmyBrush@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> Kind of ...

<snip>

Thanks Jimmy. I will try this and see how it works.
I am running Vista Ultimate RC2 right now, and will purchase Home
Premium when it's available in the stores. Do you know if the Local
Security Policy MMC is also available in that version, or only in
business/more expensive versions of Vista?


Regards,
Mark Veldhuis.

I'm fairly certain it is. If it turns out it's not ,there's a registry key
that can be set instead.

Also, I should point out that configuring UAC as I described allows any
application that requests admin permission to get it, including applications
that you may not know is requesting admin permission or want to have admin
permission.


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- JB

If the option you describe allows any application that requests admin
permission to get it, is it wise to even tamper witht he option, surely that
is defeating the object of UAC? You are causing a security headache for
yourself.

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"Jimmy Brush" <JimmyBrush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm fairly certain it is. If it turns out it's not ,there's a registry key
> that can be set instead.
>
> Also, I should point out that configuring UAC as I described allows any
> application that requests admin permission to get it, including
> applications
> that you may not know is requesting admin permission or want to have admin
> permission.
>
>
> --
>
> - JB

Agreed ... however, some people are going to turn it off, regardless; this
is a better way of doing it that shutting it down completely, so I'd rather
people do this


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- JB

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umm,
still wanna bet how many Jimmy? (ya know I GOTTA be ME!!!!)
LOL

Jeff

"Jimmy Brush" <JimmyBrush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E2C6E43F-31BC-4B75-81D3-CA1C4B6E35AF@microsoft.com...
> Agreed ... however, some people are going to turn it off, regardless; this
> is a better way of doing it that shutting it down completely, so I'd
> rather people do this
>
>
> --
> - JB
>
> Windows Vista Support Faq
> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

We're going to find out soon enough.


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- JB

I'd like a way for it to work where you only see a prompt for elevation when
it's a result of something that you *didn't* just ask to do yourself. All
the annoyances would fall away then, and you'd only be alerted when there's
some other action occurring on the system.

"Jimmy Brush" <JimmyBrush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E2C6E43F-31BC-4B75-81D3-CA1C4B6E35AF@microsoft.com...
> Agreed ... however, some people are going to turn it off, regardless; this
> is a better way of doing it that shutting it down completely, so I'd
> rather
> people do this
>
>
> --
> - JB
>
> Windows Vista Support Faq
> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
>