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I'm looking for ways to customise Windows' annoying UAC. I believe this was added in Vista, and is also present in Windows 7.
For the most part, Windows 8 does seem to be running a lot of my old software but there's one piece in particular that keeps triggering Windows 8's UAC. I have an old version of Adobe Acrobat 5 - this installed and runs fine, within reason, in Windows 8 but, every time you run it, Windows 8 pops up with an annoying UAC box that I have to click away before it will continue. Even if the software is already running, the UAC box pops up every time I want to open a PDF. There's no "remember this next time" option.
From what I've read, UAC is an "all or nothing" affair - you either have it turned on, or turned off. As it's a security feature, I believe, it would be wrong to turn it off for everything when the only issue is with individual programs.
I wondered if anyone who uses Vista or 7 has a way around this? It's not something that ever came up with XP.
For the record, I use Acrobat to tweak PDFs - not to create them (for which I use free software), or to read them (for which I use the up-to-date Adobe Reader).
For the most part, Windows 8 does seem to be running a lot of my old software but there's one piece in particular that keeps triggering Windows 8's UAC. I have an old version of Adobe Acrobat 5 - this installed and runs fine, within reason, in Windows 8 but, every time you run it, Windows 8 pops up with an annoying UAC box that I have to click away before it will continue. Even if the software is already running, the UAC box pops up every time I want to open a PDF. There's no "remember this next time" option.
From what I've read, UAC is an "all or nothing" affair - you either have it turned on, or turned off. As it's a security feature, I believe, it would be wrong to turn it off for everything when the only issue is with individual programs.
I wondered if anyone who uses Vista or 7 has a way around this? It's not something that ever came up with XP.
For the record, I use Acrobat to tweak PDFs - not to create them (for which I use free software), or to read them (for which I use the up-to-date Adobe Reader).