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Anonymous asked in Computers & InternetSecurity · 1 decade ago

Windows 7 user account control help?

Every time I run a cd it asks me to give permission and I want it to remember whether I pressed yes or no for each specific program, but I can't find any settings for that. The User Account Control settings have those 4 levels but that doesn't solve my problem. Help please!

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  • Ben
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    There is no "remembering" for User Account Control. It's a security feature, not a firewall rule. There's no way for UAC to know that it's the same program and not a virus pretending to be the same program.

    To keep you safe, Windows Vista and Windows 7 don't let any program touch certain parts of the computer (like Windows itself) without first asking your permission. That's what the UAC prompt is- it's the program asking to be allowed to modify parts of the computer that could potentially damage stuff. It's an improved version of the feature that makes Mac OS X and Linux so secure. Unfortunately, a lot of older programs always assume that they should be able to access everything on the computer (a major security risk) so they always aks for permission to do stuff that they really shouldn't need to do.

  • 1 decade ago

    when windows asks you to run a program or a cd it'll always ask you do you want to run it. the reason why it does this is because sometimes people would accidently run something they didnt want to, thats why microsoft made this feature, infact there's even in some programs that when you try to open or run it'll tell you that you have to have administrator rights to do it and than you would have to right click and hit run as administrator. in previous windows operating systems microsoft never thought of giving the operating systems this feature

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