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Using SC on Vista/Win7 & how to disable the UAC

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Jon Salkeld
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Using SC on Vista/Win7 & how to disable the UAC

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Hi everyone

I've been trying to find the answer to disabiling the UAC prompt when trying to run the resultant SC file.

Even if i put [DIS_UAC] after the [HOSTS] section in the helpfile.txt file it still requires the end user to provide administrator details.

So what am i missing? Perhaps this question has already been answered in another post that i've yet to find....

If so please point me in the right direction. :)

If not is there someone who can provide me with a step by step guide on what i'm supposed to do to get it to work?

Cheers v muchly

Jon

PS - SC works fine with Win XP machines
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Re: Using SC on Vista/Win7 & how to disable the UAC

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That's how UAC works, you can't disable it without admin access...
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Re: Using SC on Vista/Win7 & how to disable the UAC

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What kind of a reply was that?

The user attempted to use the published method for disabling UAC and it failed to work; Now he is attempting to troubleshoot the issue. Your reply did absolutely nothing to answer his question or to further the discussion.

Not to be rude but c'mon... This is a complex knowledgebase here with a lot of potential for confusion amongst users. A response like that is little better than frustrating to have spent time reading.
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Re: Using SC on Vista/Win7 & how to disable the UAC

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108 wrote:What kind of a reply was that?

The user attempted to use the published method for disabling UAC and it failed to work; Now he is attempting to troubleshoot the issue. Your reply did absolutely nothing to answer his question or to further the discussion.

Not to be rude but c'mon... This is a complex knowledgebase here with a lot of potential for confusion amongst users. A response like that is little better than frustrating to have spent time reading.
You're completely mistaken. The user did not use "the published method for disabling UAC" at all. The "published method for disabling UAC" would be one provided by Microsoft (feel free to Google); it has unfortunately <b>nothing</b> to do with the DIS_UAC option in UltraVNC. <b>All</b> that option does in UltraVNC is suppress additional UAC prompts after the first one during an installation - the user still needs to authorize the first UAC escalation, and have the credentials to do so. (Yes, if anything, that UltraVNC option should probably have a less confusing name.)

The user <b>still</b> needs Window administrative rights to accept UAC elevations, and again, that is out the scope of anything UltraVNC does.

The original poster is complaining "it still requires the end user to provide administrator details". Of course it does; it's the whole point of "limited user" privileges, even aside from UAC escalation. This where both the OP and you, apparently, are mislead.

So as supercoe very aptly answered, "That's how UAC works, you can't disable it without admin access..."

So to answer your question, that reply was appropriate, if perhaps too short.
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Re: Using SC on Vista/Win7 & how to disable the UAC

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Thanks B for being the explainer of my ways. :D
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