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What is the expected behavior if UAC is off for standard windows user?

If the UAC level is set to Never and a Standard Windows user runs up an app that requests for elevated admin privileges, what would be the expected behavior, should the app continue to run?

Solution

  • From the microsoft documentation:

    The slider will never turn UAC completely off. If you set it to Never notify, it will:

    • Keep the UAC service running.
    • Cause all elevation request initiated by administrators to be auto-approved without showing a UAC prompt.
    • Automatically deny all elevation requests for standard users.

    This means that any application requiring admin privileges won't run, as the user has no admin privileges.