Hey everyone. Quick question - I'm running Windows 10 with UAC disabled (set to "never notify"), and my user account is a member of the group Administrators. In spite of that, whenever I run a program - it runs without administrative privileges. For example, if I run notepad and try to edit the hosts file, it says "access denied" and I have to manually run Notepad "as an administrator". Another example is when I try to copy files using File Explorer, I'd get a prompt notifying me that I have to grant administrative rights (which I can, and do). In Windows 7, if you disabled UAC everything was automatically elevated. Is there a way to have everything elevated in Windows 10? Thanks
I think it's probably because explorer is being run without admin privileges. It's the default situation. You can run admin prompt and restart explorer. I don't remember how. I did it once by accident and I remember it causing problems.
There's gotta be a simpler way. It doesn't make sense that I'll have to specifically elevate each task I'm running.
Run "secpol.msc", Local Policies -> Security Options, set "User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode" to Disabled and reboot. This will really disable UAC, not only hiding the notifications. WARNING: Metro apps don't work with UAC disabled.
For me: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLua set value to 0 works fine!