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Creating An "Elevated Shortcut" Allowing UAC To Be Bypassed For Certain Trusted Applications?
The User Account Control (UAC) notifies oneself before certain changes are made to your PC ie those which require Administrator level permissions. But sometimes this can be annoying especially for ...
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Task Scheduler shortcut not working
I'm trying to launch a shortcut from this guide: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/stop-annoying-uac-prompts-how-to-create-a-user-account-control-whitelist-windows/
But the shortcut refuse to launch the ...
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How to add shortcuts to HTML files to Win8/Win2012 Start Menu without UAC?
I have a Windows 2012 server joined to a domain with UAC disabled by group policy. I'm logged on as a domain user with local admin rights.
I create a shortcut to a local HTML file, then I add that ...
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Create a shortcut with administrator rights for hosts file in Win 7
I'm trying to create a shortcut link on my desktop that is a link to the hosts file in Windows 7. The problem is that this shortcut will not open in administrator mode as the option will be greyed out ...
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Start a service (or services) with a double-click without the UAC prompt
I'd like to put an icon on my taskbar (pinned), quick launch toolbar (how to add a QLT on Windows 7) or system tray, that if I click or double-click it, it will restart a preset Windows service ...
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Setting a shortcut to trigger task scheduler
I wanted to disable the UAC popup box when running the command prompt as admin, but this didn't work for me. What did work, was setting the task scheduler to run it as admin given a specific trigger. ...
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'Run as Administrator' does not work on Shortcuts in Vista
I have two Vista Ultimate 32-bit OSs installed on my PCs here (one desktop for about 3 years, the other a laptop for 1 year), and have been experiencing the following rather irritating problem for a ...
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