In so far I'm enjoying the Windows 10 experience. A few tweaks to the GUI and I'm fairly happy with it. What I've been very annoyed about, and I've been hearing this has also been a big issue with Windows 8, has been privileges. For about a month I didn't have any issues. Then, all of a sudden (and I don't think there was an update), just before the new year iTunes started kick back that it wasn't installed properly and there wasn't a procedure entry point in the DLL folder. Thinking it was just the program, I tried to reinstall, but Windows Installer threw a 2503 error code.

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After doing some easy searching, it looks like it was a permissions issue. After checking all settings within the Install program, running the install program as admin, unregistering and reregistering with the server, double checking UAC as being off, and checked to make sure my user was part of the admin group the install program still wouldn't work. Finally, I enabled the Admin user and logged into it. No issue. So, obviously is a UAC issue. Just on the off chance that it would work I closed explorer and launched it with admin rights. Windows Install program ran just fine.

Okay, so maybe it was a glitch with iTunes installer. This is a technical preview after all. No. It wasn't just with that program. If I want to install or uninstall ANY PROGRAMS in Windows 10, I HAVE to run Explorer as admin or log into the admin account. It doesn't matter anymore. Windows Installer will always throw a 2053 error. This is THE MOST ANNOYING thing I have run across so far. One simple search of 2053 brings up plenty of results of others who have this issue (more in 8-8.1 than 7, but sometimes in 7).

I can tell you right now. If this kind of an issue doesn't get fixed, or a solution is found, I will NEVER buy Windows 10.

Is there any way that I can force a program that normally requires administrator privileges (via UAC) to run without them? (ie: no UAC prompt and no system-wide access.)

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In spite of James's answer, I have found a few ways that it can almost be done:

1. By modifying the executable I can remove the trustInfo entry from the manifest (or the manifest entirely, so I can use an external one), allowing the program to start without UAC. Unfortunately this modifies the executable, so it exits shortly after due to an internal checksum test.
2. By using Process Explorer I can launch it as a Limited User. However this seems to limit it significantly more than I would like (it runs like Protected Mode IE and so can access significantly less than what my standard un-elevated user can).

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Save this text in <name_of_file>.reg and add it to the Windows Registry. (Double-clicking on it should do the trick.)

Afterwards, right-click the app you'd like to run without administrative privileges and select 'Run without privilege elevation'.

In some cases - small amount 0.1% of programs may ask twice about UAC prompt.

Save to nonadmin.bat:

Now you can drag and drop programs to this to run them without admin.

This doesn't require admin privileges as changing that registry key does. Also you won't clutter the context menu.

Based on Vom's answer

Update: Should now work with programs that have spaces in name as well.

I hope I'm not too late to the party, but I was looking for a similar question and without seeing an answer here I found out that Windows' builtin RunAscommand, when run as administrator, can do that with /trustlevel switch.

This worked in my case.Ironically, starting a program explicitly without elevation requires an elevated command prompt. Go figure. :)I hope it helps you.

MxxMxx

If you have a particular application that you want to always run without UAC, you can target it with the Registry (add the text to a REG file and import it into the Registry):

Unlike this answer, this solution requires no alternate click or change to user interaction.

Microsoft calls this process adding the RunAsInvoker'Compatibility Shim'.

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I solved this problem today using the MS application customization toolkit.

I followed the instructions in a tech republic article.

Basically:

1) you get the toolkit from MS here .

2) Click Fix

3) Choose the RunAsInvoker option

4) Right Click the fix and choose Install

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If it's a setup (installation) exe file that is requiring administration privilege, there's a trick to run it without elevated access:

If the file's name contains words like setup or install windows forcefully runs it with elevated access even if it doesn't need elevated access:

If the .exe file has a manifest in it, these heuristics for elevation do not apply.

This is documented on the UAC (User Account Control) docs:

Installer detection detects setup files, which helps prevent installations from being run without the user's knowledge and consent.

Installer detection only applies to:

• 32-bit executable files.

• Applications without a requested execution level attribute.

• Interactive processes running as a standard user with UAC enabled.

Before a 32-bit process is created, the following attributes are checked to determine whether it is an installer:

• The file name includes keywords such as 'install,' 'setup,' or 'update.'

• ..

Read mode here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/user-account-control/how-user-account-control-works

ShayanShayan

While in his question Andrew stated that the following did not quite work:

By modifying the executable I can remove the trustInfo entry from the manifest (or the manifest entirely, so I can use an external one), allowing the program to start without UAC. Unfortunately this modifies the executable, so it exits shortly after due to an internal checksum test.

I was able to modify an external .manifest file for the software I was using and change

<ms_asmv2:requestedExecutionLevel level='requireAdministrator' uiAccess='false' />

to

<ms_asmv2:requestedExecutionLevel level='asInvoker' uiAccess='false' />

Turns out the software I was using did not really require administrator rights so I was able to run it on a Standard User account without UAC or administrator passwords. Thanks!

I fixed this problem by going changing the permissions on the folder that contained the program.

I added each user that will run that program and gave them 'full control' priviledges. That took care of the problem and I left the 'run as admin' unchecked.

I don't have any security concerns for the users who will be running the program.

slhck

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No, if a program requires UAC then it is trying to access something outside of its sandbox. The program will not correctly run without the elevated access.

If you just want to get rid of the notification, you can disable UAC.

Disable UAC on Windows Vista: Start, type 'user'. Click on 'User Accounts'. On the window that pops up, click on 'User Account Control Settings' and then Turn off UAC.

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Disable UAC on Windows 7: Start, type 'user'. Click on 'User Account Control Settings'. Drag the choice bar all the way to the bottom to 'Never Notify.'

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