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How does Windows 7 know to add the UAC shield to some shortcuts?
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Mar 15, 202613188 viewsConfidence Score0%
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How does Windows 7 know to add the UAC shield to some shortcuts? I used to have to tell the program to run as an administrator. But now that same shortcut has the yellow and blue UAC shield icon on it. How does it know to run my program as an administrator? Is there some registry key?
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Fix for: How does Windows 7 know to add the UAC shield to some shortcuts?
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There are a few ways it can know. Generally it will put the UAC icon there anytime clicking the icon will result in a UAC prompt confirmation. However, you may not always see it because after a recent change, the icon cache won't immediately be upda…
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