Customizing Win 7 User Account Control

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around customizing User Account Control (UAC) settings in Windows 7 to prevent confirmation prompts for specific applications, particularly 7-Zip and AbiWord. Participants explore potential solutions without lowering global UAC settings.

Discussion Character

  • Technical explanation, Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • One participant expresses frustration with UAC prompts for frequently used programs, seeking a way to disable these prompts without lowering global UAC settings.
  • Another participant questions the necessity of UAC for the mentioned programs, suggesting that they should not require elevated permissions.
  • A participant clarifies that running 7-Zip without administrator privileges prevents them from extracting archives, while running it as an admin triggers a UAC prompt.
  • It is noted that UAC prompts appear for programs with unknown publishers, while other applications like Gimp do not trigger such prompts.
  • Participants discuss the current UAC setting, which is set to "Default - Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer," and one participant claims they do not experience prompts under more restrictive settings.
  • Versions of 7-Zip and AbiWord are shared, with one participant mentioning they use a different version of Windows 7.
  • Suggestions are made to check program properties and permissions, including setting programs to always run in admin mode, but one participant reports that this did not resolve the UAC prompt issue.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants do not reach a consensus on the necessity of UAC for the discussed applications, and multiple competing views regarding the effectiveness of potential solutions remain unresolved.

Contextual Notes

There are limitations regarding the specific configurations of UAC and the permissions set for individual programs, which may affect the outcomes discussed.

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For some programs I frequently use, I must click on a confirmation box each time I run them. This box does not show up if I don't run them as administrator, but if I don't run them as administrator I cannot save/edit files with these programs.

I want the confirmation box to not show up for these specific programs. I do not want to set the global UAC settings lower. There isn't a way to allow specific programs with the UAC interface, oddly.

So how do I do this?

If it helps any, some of the programs I use are AbiWord and 7-Zip.
 
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Neither of those should require UAC. What are you trying to do?
 
Ok, if I don't run 7-Zip as administrator, I can't extract archives.
If I do run it as admin the UAC confimation box pops up.

It doesn't allow me to take a snapshot of it.
It says something along the lines of:
Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?

Program name: 7zFM.exe
Publisher: Unknown
File origin: Hard drive on this computer
Program location: "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7zFM.exe"

Similarly, for AbiWord I can't save documents unless I run it as admin.

I've kinda gotten used to it, but it would be nice if there was a way to disable the popup for these programs.
The only way I know of to disable it is to disable UAC completely, and I don't want to do that.

Other programs, such as Gimp, don't cause a UAC popup.
It does it for programs with unknown publishers.
 
What setting do you currently have UAC on?
 
"Default - Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer"
 
Then a UAC prompt should not be triggered when you use those applications. I use 7-Zip with the most restrictive UAC settings, and I am never prompted when using it.

What versions of 7z and AbiWord do you have?
 
7-Zip 9.20
AbiWord 2.6.8

I am using Windows 7 Professional (64-bit, though I don't think that's relevant). Do you use a different version?
 
Ultimate x86_64.

Have you tried right clicking, going into properties and seeing what the permissions are? It's been a while since I've booted into W7, but IIRC you can set a program to always run in admin mode.
 
jhae2.718 said:
Have you tried right clicking, going into properties and seeing what the permissions are? It's been a while since I've booted into W7, but IIRC you can set a program to always run in admin mode.
Yep, that's what I've been doing. I added my name to the permissions on one (Gravity Simulator) and gave myself Full Control, and UAC still comes up.
 
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