Turning off User Account Control on a per-program basis

[John Gray]

If, like me, you have become frustrated with wanting to keep UAC but having to click Yes to the message Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer? every time you want to run the program, perhaps several times per day, then perhaps help is at hand with UAC Trust Shortcut (go down a bit and to the right). This enables you to set up a (new) desktop shortcut to each program you run frequently and avoid getting the annoying prompt. Useful for things like Xplorer2, Command Prompt, Regedit, Autoruns, CCleaner, Defraggler, etc etc which bring up the UAC prompt, even when run as Administrator.

As traditional with some of these programs, the documentation is carefully hidden (a PDF appears in the installation directory!), but a long and "kiddie's guide" tutorial is at How to turn off UAC for a specific application.

From the downloaded ZIP file (64-bit or 32-bit), run the .msi installer if you already have .NET Framework 4 installed, and the .exe file if you don't.

And note specifically that although the installer suggests that the program is installed in C:\Program Files\ it is in fact installed in C:\Program Files\ITknowledge24\ - so don't change the offered path (because it doesn't then seem to work, not being able to find files!).

My brief experience with it so far is positive!