How do I disable UAC for a specific application using the command line with no restart

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Hi,

I'm trying to find a way to disable UAC for a specific application using the command line. All I've found is a way to disable UAC completely for the admin but I need to only disable it for a application. I'll be applying this to a batch script. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Posted 27-May-15 6:29am

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Sascha Lefèvre 27-May-15 12:45pm

Only possible with ugly tricks that aren't officially supported. UAC is there for a good reason, you should just accept that :)

Member 11579826 27-May-15 12:54pm

Not in this case, the program that I have will not run properly unless UAC is turned off for it. I'm willing to use the ugly tricks.

Sascha Lefèvre 27-May-15 13:26pm

I'm not comfortable with posting direct links to these sources. You will find them by googling for "bypass UAC".

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-May-15 15:48pm

I don't believe those links helps to do it programmatically without final user's consent. Of course UAC can be completely turned off.
This whole question is just wrong way of thinking.
Please see Solution 1.
—SA

Sascha Lefèvre 27-May-15 15:57pm

No, not programmatically, as far as I know from having taken just a short look at it.

Richard Deeming 27-May-15 15:20pm

Have you tried using the compatibility settings?
What is program compatibility?[^]
Making older programs run in this version of Windows[^]

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-May-15 15:47pm

No, "in this case", too. You just made it up, do to lack of elementary logic. If someone wants to disable UAC completely, this person always can do it. But this should be the responsibility of a final user.
—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-05-27T09:45:00

Solution 1

If such way existed, who would never need such useless UAC? Just use some elementary logic. This is the whole idea: UAC is designed the way to make it impossible to bypass it without the user's consent.

—SA

Posted 27-May-15 9:45am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov