UAC in Vista Home Premium (hmm... no secpol.msc)

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From what I have read, secpol.msc does not exist in vista home premium. I
would really like to set certain programs to be "elevated without prompting"
so that I do not have to see the prompt every time, but all the help files
point me to secpol.msc. I have read about ways to do this, but I would really
like to avoid directly messing with the registry. Has Microsoft released
anything to help with this problem and I just cannot find it? If not, are
they planning on fixing this?
 
Hmmm... Maybe I need to rephrase my question...
I allready marked the programs to "Run this program as Administrator"
(although the place the information in the link is good to know)... What I am
really trying to do is to get UAC to not ask me if I am sure I want to run a
program because it says "An unidentified program wants access to your
computer." And i am really interested to know if microsoft has (or is working
on) a "secpol.msc" or an equvilent so I can easily change the behavoir of UAC
without just turning it off.
 
google "dtweak" it will disable this with one click as well as allow you to
customize vista loads eaiser.
 
As it says in my previous post, I do NOT wish to disable UAC.
Also, I am not getting a "CONTINUE" question... I am getting a
"Allow/Cancel" message...
 
As it says in my previous post, I do NOT wish to disable UAC... I just want
to make exceptions for my commonly used programs...
Also, I am not getting a "CONTINUE" question... I am getting a
"Allow/Cancel" message...
 
Although dtweak is really cool, it has an all encompasing message silencer...
I would like to be able to silence messages for specific programs. I am
getting the feeling like nothing exists that can do this (I am not even sure
if secpol.msc can do this because I dont have it... can someone confirm
this?)... mostly I am just really annoyed that the help files point me to a
program that doesnt exist. Did they just forget to add it?... Were they not
able to get it to work properly on premium so they just left it out?!! (O...
and please let me know if you think this post belongs in another section... I
wasnt sure which category to put it under)
 
Umm... When I posted this message there was an error... so it is
incomplete... please read the complete one...
 
Ruben said:
Although dtweak is really cool, it has an all encompasing message
silencer...
I would like to be able to silence messages for specific programs. I
am
getting the feeling like nothing exists that can do this (I am not
even sure
if secpol.msc can do this because I dont have it... can someone
confirm
Click to expand...

seccpol.msc can't do it on a per-program basis either. It is all or
nothing.
this?)... mostly I am just really annoyed that the help files point me
to a
program that doesnt exist. Did they just forget to add it?... Were
they not
able to get it to work properly on premium so they just left it out?!!
Click to expand...

No, it is one of their (in my opinion, misguided) artificially
introduced "differences" between the Home and non-Home versions of
Vista. Their thinking is apparently that no Home user would ever need
to adjust security policies (or use group policies, or join a domain,
etc.). Rubbish.

Regards,

Dave
 
Ruben said:
From what I have read, secpol.msc does not exist in vista home premium. I
would really like to set certain programs to be "elevated without
prompting"
so that I do not have to see the prompt every time, but all the help files
point me to secpol.msc. I have read about ways to do this, but I would
really
like to avoid directly messing with the registry. Has Microsoft released
anything to help with this problem and I just cannot find it? If not, are
they planning on fixing this?
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*Officially* there is no secpol.msc in Home Premium. This is true.
 
Thank you everyone for the information! =)

(I still think UAC should be a bit more customizable though...)
 
securify said:
I really appreciate all the discussion here, especially some really
efficient postings by Shawn. But can someone please answer my concern
here ?

I am a Vista x64 home premium user. It is also true that I can disable
all my UAC annoyances very easily as described here in the forum
several
times. But it is also true that as of now, I cannot access secpol.msc
and can't monitor my local security policy :cry:. This is a part of
some
weird microsoft differentiation. Why is that so ?

Let's get specific :geek:. For example - I want to actually see how
the domain in my policy is acting. Let's say I wanna change the "UAC:
Behavior of elevation prompt for standard users" policy.

How would I do that without secpol.msc ? Is there a tweak which allows
me to access the "local security policy" without actually messing up
with the registry ?

Really appreciate your reply.
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You've got Vista 64 Home Premium joined to a domain?
 
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