Getting the UAC shield off a desktop icon

[S.SubZero]

I recently installed a game in Vista x64. It's an older game, but
runs fine. Only problem is the desktop icon has the damn UAC shield
and it pesters me to allow it to run every time. I trust this app, so
I want it to just run. Is there a setting for the app to make it not
bug me for UAC every time I run it?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

No.
But then Goliath should not worry about David, he was 'only a boy' Take off
that helmet, bud. Trust me. it's OK.

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[Little Billy]

I recently installed a game in Vista x64. It's an older game, but
runs fine. Only problem is the desktop icon has the damn UAC shield
and it pesters me to allow it to run every time. I trust this app, so
I want it to just run. Is there a setting for the app to make it not
bug me for UAC every time I run it?

turn it off and make sure it's not running as a service.

 

[Rock]

I recently installed a game in Vista x64. It's an older game, but
runs fine. Only problem is the desktop icon has the damn UAC shield
and it pesters me to allow it to run every time. I trust this app, so
I want it to just run. Is there a setting for the app to make it not
bug me for UAC every time I run it?

No, UAC cannot be disabled on an individual program basis.

 

[S.SubZero]

No, UAC cannot be disabled on an individual program basis.

That is strange, since there's only two games on this install; Final
Fantasy XI (the game in question), and the Lost Planet demo. The Lost
Planet demo doesn't have the shield, and does not bother me for UAC
stuff when I run it. Has this newer game somehow told Vista to trust
it during the install?

The other answers given by the other posters were not useful at all,
as my post clearly stated I was only interested in not having this one
particular app not bug me at every run for UAC permission. I do not
want to disable UAC entirely, and never stated such a thing. I do
know how to turn UAC off system-wide. I don't want to do this.

 

[Kurt Herman]

Yes, the one without the shield is "Vista aware", and thusly installs
correctly in user space.
The other program, with the shield, should be installed as admin (right
click on the setup.exe, and choose run as admin.) This is giving that
program the keys to your system, but it will run with no UAC prompts.

Kurt

 

[RalfG]

Every program that I've enabled 'run as administrator' on has both the
shield on its icon and triggers a UAC prompt when run.

 

[Kurt Herman]

Did you INSTALL as admin? If so DON'T check the run as admin box in the
installed programs properties. Leave it alone. EVERY single app, on my
computer (the older ones...I.e. Photoshop 7, Audition, NewsRover, Namo Web
Edit 5 etc...) show NO UAC prompts, EVER. And I installed tham as admin, in
the way I mentioned previously. Don't touch the properties of the installed
exe. JUST right click on the setup.exe when you are trying to install the
program, and choose "run as admin".

Damn.....Way back when Vista was released it took me about 2 hours to figure
that out.

It's NOT rocket surgery.

Kurt

 

[RalfG]

Most are already installed as administrator and that's fine where it works.
I reinstalled CKRename and it behaved just as you said. OTOH some, like
MediaCoder or Ping Plotter, even when installed as admin still have to be
run as admin or else they generate errors or won't run properly. I've also
got a few utilities that didn't require installation but need to be run as
administrator.