4 Ways to Disable User Account Control (UAC) for Specific Software in Windows

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Whether you like the User Account Control (UAC) feature in Windows Vista, 7 and 8 or not, the average computer user should always have it enabled. This is because there’s no doubt UAC is capable of blocking some actions by malware such as adding itself to global startup, dropping or modifying files located in Windows, installing rogue software processes and etc. There are certainly weaknesses in UAC, and there are ways to bypass UAC restrictions on a system, but not all malware is capable of doing that which is where UAC can work.

 

Home » Windows » 4 Ways to Disable User Account Control (UAC) for Specific Software in Windows4 Ways to Disable User Account Control (UAC) for Specific Software in WindowsHAL9000 Updated 3 years ago Windows 39 CommentsWhether you like the User Account Control (UAC) feature in Windows Vista, 7 and 8 or not, the average computer user should always have it enabled. This is because there’s no doubt UAC is capable of blocking some actions by malware such as adding itself to global startup, dropping or modifying files located in Windows, installing rogue software processes and etc. There are certainly weaknesses in UAC, and there are ways to bypass UAC restrictions on a system, but not all malware is capable of doing that which is where UAC can work.
 

Unfortunately the effectiveness of UAC will probably diminish over time for many users because they mostly just end up pressing Yes to allow a program access without even looking at what is asking to run, because they’re presented with the prompt so often. Power users will no doubt find UAC extremely annoying and it’s the first thing that many of us disable after installing Windows. We usually have to keep UAC enabled on some of our test systems to simulate a normal user’s computer when doing research or testing software.
 
If you keep UAC enabled it can be quite annoying when you use a piece of software often and every time you run it, the UAC prompt appears. The program is perfectly safe, you’ve run it several times, and yet Windows keeps asking. Thankfully, there are ways around this problem to stop the UAC prompt from appearing for programs you specify and trust, here’s a selection of ways you can do it.

1. UAC Pass
 
UAC Pass is a small and portable executable that creates a UAC promptless shortcut on your desktop with drag and drop. When you double click the shortcut, it will launch your program and won’t popup the UAC prompt. This is made possible by adding the application to the Windows Task Scheduler automatically and then the shortcut simply starts the task with high privileges.
 

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