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disable UAC via GPO
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OptionsBl8ckr0uter Inactive Imported Users Posts: 5,031 ■■■■■■■■□□
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OptionsDevilsbane Member Posts: 4,214 ■■■■■■■■□□Is the group policy going to be available in a 2003 domain? Or would you have to use a logon script or something to modify the regisrty?
Of course, once you have decide that you want this it is easy enough to make the registry edit part of the default image.Decide what to be and go be it. -
Optionstiersten Member Posts: 4,505Why do you want to disable UAC? UAC isn't just that popup. It does quite a few other things behind the scenes and they're actually useful things.
Also, if you toggle UAC on a system that has already been used then you're going to experience some issues with it because the file/registry virtualisation will now be disabled or enabled. You should only ever alter this setting if it is a fresh install of Windows with nothing installed. -
OptionsClaymoore Member Posts: 1,637Why do you want to disable UAC? UAC isn't just that popup. It does quite a few other things behind the scenes and they're actually useful things.
Also, if you toggle UAC on a system that has already been used then you're going to experience some issues with it because the file/registry virtualisation will now be disabled or enabled. You should only ever alter this setting if it is a fresh install of Windows with nothing installed.
Tiersten, you beat me to it. You should leave UAC turned on and perhaps just tune the behavior of the prompt a bit. The file and registry virtualization features fix many of the issues that required Admin access in the first place.
User Account Control in Windows 7 Best Practices
If you are having problems with a particular application always requesting admin access, you can use shims from the Application Compatibility Toolkit to fix those messages. Most likely you want the RunAsHighest shim, but other shims would be better depending on the exact nature of the problem.RunAsHighest
This compatibility fix marks this application to run in the most privileged security context available to the user. This means that it will run with standard user privileges for a standard user or with administrator privileges for an administrator.
If the application is just checking to see if you are an admin, you can lie to it using the ForceAdminAccess shim.
ForceAdminAccess
This compatibility fix addresses issues that may be encountered when an application uses various API calls to verify if the current user is part of the Administrators group.