User Account Control in Windows Vista

[Holly]

A few days ago I couldn't get on the Internet as IE wouldn't work and connection for the internet was ok so out of desperation I did an IE reset. It still didn't work so a family member came over and got it working, but now I get the User Account Control permission  popup each time I sign on the desktop by clicking on the IE shortcut.  I went to the security folder and turned off the User Account Control and now I'm not getting that popup each time I click on the desktop IE. This popup never used to come on when clicking on the IE shortcut, so something must have happened when I did the reset of IE.  Does anyone know how to keep on the User Account Control for all but the IE?

I  have a feeling I by accident changed a setting on IE and probably wouldn't have had to do an IE reset.but now the problem is I would like to keep the User Account Control  permission popup for all but the IE shortcut on my desktop.

By the way my family member right clicked the desktop shortcut for IE and did something with Run as Administrator to get IE working again.

 

 

HP Pavillion Slimlines3700y.
Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 32bit.
purchased May, 2009...

[James_PCD]

Hello Holly,

I am no expect when it comes to UAC.  I do know that it is place to help ensure that programs have to prompt for access to the system and that IE usually isn't one of the programs that would display the UAC prompt.  I would be concerned with a potential virus or other malicious software trying to get access to your system.
There is a post on the Vista forums that you may find helpful, before moving forward:

You need to identify what program/activex control or other add-on is causing
the UACmessage to appear. This could be a malicious program that could harm
your computer.

What that message is trying to tell you is that "A program is trying to get
complete and unrestricted access to your entire computer".

First, determine what steps you are taking that makes that UAC prompt
appear. Next, go to Tools/Manage add-ons/Enable or disable add-ons.

Near the top of that dialog is a drop down menu that gives you different
views of the add-ons. Using these different views, disable a block of the
add-ons and then recreate the steps that make the UAC message appear. If the
message does not appear, re-enable each of the add-ons in that block,
one-at-a-time, checking to see if the message appears after enabling each
one. When the message appears, you have identified the culprit.

You can then go to the website of the maker of that add-on and make sure it
is legitimate. If it turns out to be OK, check that website for an updated
version of the add-on for Vista/IE7.

[Holly]

I had actually checked the add-ons, and they all had been installed long ago before I ever had this problem. Also all updates to the add-ons were well before this problem appeared. The only thing I did before this was an IE reset. The add-ons are Adobe,Sun Microsystems (Java), Microsoft amd Symantec (Norton.) My Norton and Windows Defender have found no problems. Right now I have turned off UAC as the popup every time I want to use the internet is a pain. This popup even appears if I go to control panel to turn UAC on or off. I don't think I'm in too much danger of getting a program I don't want as Norton always pop up to tell me it is safe or unsafe---but I'm just curious as to why it's happening now. I posted this problem on an HP Forum and noticed someone else is just recently having this problem with UAC and this person is the only user of his computer and also the administrator. No one on the Microsoft Forum has an answer either,although a few did give me some suggestions and one was for AUC for Windows 7 but Windows 7's AUC has more features and so won't work for my computer with Windows Vista.
Thanks for your reply.
My nephew, who originally setup my computer for me, will look at this for me when he has a chance to visit.

[James_PCD]

Good luck!

[Holly]

My nephew looked at the problem I was having some time ago, but I told him to forget it as he really didn't have the time to work on it. I just kept UAC turned off all these months and have had no problems as I don't download anything I'm not sure about. However, a few days ago I went back to this problem . I had tried the check with compatiblity tab and as stated earlier "Run as Administrator" was not checked. This time I went to the Shortcut Tab on properties of IE and clicked on Advanced. Then I unchecked the Run as Administrator box and went back and turned on UAC and everything is working fine. No more UAC popups!!!  I also did this for the IE in the startup menu and the one on the quicklaunch bar. For some reason the one on the keyboard had worked this time ( it hadn't earlier) without a UAC popup even before I made the changes.  This is exactly what made me do  some more exploring to see if I could get the other IE shortcuts to work.

I believe my other family member who had been helping me to get IE to work when I was having problems getting on the internet even after doing an IE reset turned on the " Run as Administrator". He wasn't bothered by the popup and said if I was annoyed by it to just turn it off as he said I had a very good  antivirus program (Norton) installed on my computer and it always warns you if a program you want to install is safe or not safe.

Hope this might help anyone else who might have this problem.

Holly
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