Create a Task Scheduler to Block UAC on Specific Programs
October 25, 2008 by Milo Riano
Filed under Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista
If you have enabled User Access Control (UAC) an authentication confirmation pops-up whenever a program is launched. You can however, prevent it from asking a confirmation by creating a task scheduler that runs the program at startup.
Below are the steps:
1. Click on the Start menu
2. Type “Task Scheduler”. The image below appears:
3. Run “Task Scheduler” as administrator. Confirm the UAC. The image below appears:
4. Click and expand “Task Scheduler Library”
5. Click on “Create Task”
6. Name the task scheduler you want to create in the generals tab
7. Select administrator account
8. Check “Run only when user is logged on”
9. Check “Run with highest privilege”
10. On the triggers tab, click on “New”. Select “At log on” from drop down list
11. Check “Any” user option
12. On the Advanced tab, check “Enabled” box and click “Ok”
13. Click “Actions” tab and “New” button
14. Click “Browse” and locate the application
15. In the arguments box, type “/startup”
16. Click settings tab
17. Check “Run task” as soon as possible when a schedule is not started
18. Uncheck “Stop the task if it runs longer than:”
19. Click “Ok”
