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Friday, June 08, 2007 8:25 PM

The best way to make UAC shut up for a while

Let's say you want to install a few things and want UAC to stop bugging you while you install them. Should you turn off UAC and install the apps? Since that disables UAC's virtualization, it can destabilize things that depend on data written to those
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:03 PM

Making an MSI that doesn't need a UAC/LUA prompt

The goal I think that most things don't need to require a UAC prompt to install - just install it for that user. Why not make the MSI so it doesn't prompt and your users get a smoother experience? (Also, I feel much better installing a program that doesn't
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:11 PM

How to launch an un-elevated process from an elevated process

This question has come up a fair amount lately. The short answer is that you don't * - instead you should: first launch an unelevated process have that unelevated process launch an elevated process and wait for it to finish (or use some form of IPC) have
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Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:08 PM

UAC UI on oldnewthing - what the colors mean

I mentioned recently that I was the new owner of the UAC UI (from the dev side). Well, today I found that Raymond Chen's blog has brought up the topic of what the colors mean. I hadn't even really noticed that the dialogs changed much before taking ownership
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:09 AM

New Beginnings...

I've moved onto the Windows Experience team. It should a lot of fun to continue to follow Guided Help, and some of my other projects but my emphasis now is on the Windows Experience - things like explorer and the like. I'm also the new owner of the LUA/UAC
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