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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: jonnyD on September 14, 2011, 08:04:34 PM
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My daughter has a laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium OS. Whenever we try to download anything, we get a security pop-up that says:
Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer? To continue, type an administrtator password, then click yes.
There is no place to type a password and the "YES" box is grayed out. I am only able to click on "NO." I realize this user account does not have administrator priveleges so I tried to go into user accounts to assign her account administtrator rights but I get the same pop-up
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Try lowering the notification slider on your UAC settings by Control Panel/System Security/Action Center/Change UAC Settings, click Ok.
(http://i.imgur.com/ek50k.jpg)
Try this settings. Its possible that its on Always Notify.
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I am unable to make the change. There is a shield icon next to "Change UAC settings" that indicates I will get a security pop-up - which I do - in order to access the UAC settings: and then I'm unable to type in an admin password as the pop-up asks (I mentioned this in my first post). Why cannot I even type in the password if that's what's required?
FYI: There is a shield icon next to many differnet areas in Control Panel: add or remove user accounts, set up parental controls, change UAC control settings, device manager. All of these get the same pop-up.
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See if this works for you: http://www.tweak-uac.com/home/
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At this point, having read the article about the efficacy of UAC, I would love to just turn it off. Unfortunately, I cannot download anything because the pop-up asking me to allow the download is the same one I've been getting and I cannot type an Admin password into the pop-up.
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Try booting into safemode...try the download...and try turning UAC off as per the instructions...
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Interestingly, I booted up in Safe Mode and was given a choice of logging on as an Administrator account or a user account. I logged on as Admin (it was password protected and I know the password). I was then able to turn off the UAC without having to use the tweak tool. ;D Thanks, Patio.
I still wonder why I was not allowed to type an Admin password into the UAC pop-up. I thought that was the whole point: to be able to choose to allow and action or not as long as the password is known.
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I'd bet that when you tried you were in a simple User account...where that option would be greyed out by design.
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Ah, yes I was. So the choice to allow an action or not only happens with the Admin account?
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Correct....otherwise Users would be able to make changes the Admin doesn't want.
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