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    Windows 8 UAC - Exceptions?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Fat Dragon, Nov 13, 2012.

  1. Fat Dragon

    Fat Dragon Just this guy, you know?

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    I know the first response from most users will just be to disable UAC, but it's caught one or two bad programs for me in the past, potentially saving me data loss and the trouble of OS recovery, so I prefer sticking with it. The question is: did MS get their stuff together this time and allow exceptions in UAC? I use Google Pinyin for Chinese language input, and it updates at least once a day, popping up an annoying UAC window that gets prioritized over any task every single time. It's not going to have a significant influence on my quality of life, but it would be nice to fix it.

    So anyone know how/if I can make an exception to UAC in Windows 8?
     
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    Fat Dragon Just this guy, you know?

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    Sorry, one more thread bump and then I'm done. Google Pinyin interrupting whatever I'm doing once or twice a day drives me absolutely bonkers...
     
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    Fat Dragon Just this guy, you know?

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    Turning off updates is a good idea if my computer Chinese were better, but as it is I don't really know what about half the options on the Chinese-only menu mean, so that would be tough.

    However, installing in a non-protected location sounds like a brilliant idea. I'll be giving it a try when I go home from work today.
     
  4. Qing Dao

    Qing Dao Notebook Deity

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    If you don't know what it says in the menu, you can use google translate. I'm also not sure why in the world you would need to update a 拼音 to 汉字 program very often, let alone multiple times a day...
     
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    Fat Dragon Just this guy, you know?

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    They do it to keep up with input trends - perhaps someone's name comes up more often because of a news item, within a few hours it's easier to type in 谷歌拼音. It's a pain, though.
     
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    I use certain programs everyday and it was getting very annoying always having to allow UAC so I found this program
    UAC Pass | freeAvvArea
    It is portable just unzip it. When you run it will prompt for UAC but then you just drag the shortcut to the program and it will create a new shortcut. Replace that one with the new one and it won't prompt for UAC anymore when you run it.