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user2139876

Reputation: 29

How to bypass UAC check in an MFC app without modifying system registry ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384691.aspx is not really helping. Visual Studio enviroment settings isn't making any difference.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 397

Answers (1)

Bill_Stewart
Bill_Stewart

Reputation: 24585

[My (upvoted) answer was deleted for some reason. Here it is again.]

The answer to this question is: You cannot bypass the UAC prompt. Read the following blog posting for the many reasons why:

FAQ: Why can’t I bypass the UAC prompt?

Quoting from that FAQ:

The designers of Windows Vista's User Account Control expressly decided not to incorporate functionality like setuid/suid or sudo found in Unix and Unix-like OSes such as Mac OS X. I think they made the right decision.

...

If it were possible to mark an application to run with silently-elevated privileges, what would become of all those apps out there with LUA bugs? Answer: they'd all be marked to silently elevate. How would future software for Windows be written? Answer: To silently elevate. Nobody would actually fix their apps, and end-user applications will continue to require and run with full administrative permissions unnecessarily.

Bill

Upvotes: 1

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