{"id":1753,"date":"2013-04-16T08:29:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T07:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2013-04-16T08:29:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T07:29:51","slug":"enabledisable-uac-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2013\/04\/enabledisable-uac-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable\/Disable UAC | Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having some problems trying to enable UAC and spent some time trying to resolve this, starting a <a title=\"Technet Forum\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/UKbrr\" target=\"_blank\">technet <\/a>post to help. My preference would be to use Group Policy (GPO) to enable this, however experienced issues with the UAC not being fully functional (no admin\u00a0elevation\u00a0prompts).\u00a0Unfortunately I never really got to the bottom of the issue., however as a workaround used the following script in a *.bat file to disable it in the registry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enable\u00a0<\/strong><strong>UAC (via *.bat)<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre lang=\"basic\">%windir%\\System32\\reg.exe ADD HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System \/v EnableLUA \/t REG_DWORD \/d 1 \/f<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Disable UAC (via *.bat)<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre lang=\"basic\">%windir%\\System32\\reg.exe ADD HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System \/v EnableLUA \/t REG_DWORD \/d 0 \/f<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Problems with GPO (technet): \u00a0<\/strong><a title=\"Enable UAC via GPO | Windows 7\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Q9JRH\" target=\"_blank\">Enable UAC via GPO | Windows 7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having some problems trying to enable UAC and spent some time trying to resolve this, starting a technet post to help. My preference would be to use Group Policy (GPO) to enable this, however experienced issues with the UAC not being fully functional (no admin\u00a0elevation\u00a0prompts).\u00a0Unfortunately I never really got to the bottom of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errrwhatcategory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-sh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}