Windows 7 UAC Question

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Hi,

I recently downloaded the samsung Tocco Lite software for my daughter. The PC she uses has me as admin and the rest of the family as users. I'd rather leave UAC enabled to prevent her installing things, or at least ask for my password if the installation is fine.

So then I installed the samsung software and all seems okay when I was testing it on my account, but when she launches the program it always prompts for my password. I've tried fiddling with the NTFS permission giving her (and all users) full control over the folder. The exe icon has the UAC shield on it. Is there a way to disable this for one particular program?
 
The application has most likely a manifest embedded that asks the operating system to start the application process always with admin rights. Perhaps because it needs to access or do some things on your system (load a device driver, communicate with a device driver, ...) that require admin rights.

As far as I know you can't really change that (unless you can change the software itself). The reason is, that the application could itself (depending on the application of course) start any other programs with admin rights as well.
 
Have you got a download link for the software? If it's a free download I might try it later to see if there is anything you might be able to do.
 
It seems to work fine for me as a standard user, and the shortcut does not display a UAC shield icon either. All the processes associated with the software have UAC virtualization enabled, which basically means you shouldn't be seeing UAC prompts when you run it.

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I'm not sure what to suggest really, aside from uninstalling and reinstalling. I obviously can't test it with the phone plugged in either. Hope that helps... somewhat. :(
 
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