SOLVED Annoying UAC popup every time before arma launches

[Adriel]

Arma 2 OA/private Military Company/British Armed Forces all want admin rights before launching the game everytime! "you want to allow this app or program to makes changes to your device? well no...! i dont! if its a coding issue fix it please. anybody here who got a fix without turning off UAC let me know please thanks. ive tried 2-3 options. really dont feel like uninstalling steam or starting over with no certainty that will work

ok this is day 4 or 5? anyway finally found the issue or think what the issue was. this is for all of those who have this issue still. i see there have been a few so here is another possible fix.

1: I went into UAC set it on sec before last setting short of turning UAC off.
2:went back to steam hit play, Battle eye popup came on an started to download clicked next, it finished downloading and setting up then I closed it all out.
3: went back to UAC set it back on middle setting or default. went back to arma 2 clicked play and it launches with no irritating UAC popup, blessed relieve.
not sure if it was battle eye alway wanting to download but couldnt or AV would not let it, because BE is spyware.

[Hanomaly]

Just so you know. Sometimes "changes to your device" just means simply allowing a program to create a new save file. Creating a new save file on your computer *is* changing the device. Similarly creating crash logs, generating a new settings file, whatever, all require a program to be able to "change" the device.

i don't do Arma, but it's possible one of your mods maybe needs to generate files from time to time. Or, it's possible you have your games installed in poor system locations, causing this constant UAC problem (try moving your game install OUT of your "Program Files" or "Program Files (x86)".

i guess, also, maybe you have some bad mod installed that's messing up launching.

[Muppet among Puppets]

So the uac is annoying you and doesnt give you a setting to stop it?

If someone wanted to write a malware, they would let it ask for uac approval under a friendly name. In this light, what does uac provide as extra protection thats worth the nagging factor all the time? Malwarebytes causes uac to ask each time. You get conditioned to click it away.

Maybe its better to talk to microsoft that they implement a setting where you can whitelist things.

[Chompman]

This is something you have set on windows that causes this and you need to disable it there.

[Daggoth]

You have let it complete any first time startup installs, right? Stuff like DirectX installers, etc, that need admin access will trigger a UAC prompt.
If you've never allowed it, it's possibly doing it every time until you do.

But yeah some games just need admin access to drop save files on the drive, because they were made back when the prompts weren't so strict.

[Dagnabbit]

Not Valve's problem. Try complaining to the developer.

[Kargor]

I can't promise it works in other cases, but the last time I had a game insisting on UAC all the time, I just denied it for a few times, and then it suddenly decided it didn't want to try it anymore.

It might have been coincidence, though, like someone at the publisher realizing there was a bad config file or something like and fixing it.

If you actually manage to get one of those old games on Steam that are like Win9x era -- even back in XP, the fix was to just open up the permissions on the install directory, registry branch, or whatever they were trying to write to.

[Adriel]

if its something ive set on windows why do all my other games work just fine with no uac asking me everytime? an it clearly says steam client is the one asking. can i uninstall steam delete everything an reinstall it an still have my games? i dont care if i have to reinstall them all. this is day 2 im trying to figure out how to fix it. an yes i let it finish everything and do what it wanted on install.
and its not a good idea to turn off UAC, I know how to turn it off. Arma package gave me day z mod but didnt touch it and i wont its awful ill use day z launcher for it. it also gave me OA beta which is obsolete and i didnt touch that either.

[Adriel]

Originalmente postado por Muppet among Puppets:

Originalmente postado por shetler:

and its not a good idea to turn off UAC

What exactly would happen?

Its the first thing i disable, because it puts a shield on icons and it asks again and again.
A malicious file would make sure it asks "dolphin wants to swim, may dolphin?", but actually it isnt dolphin.

So, what does it actually bring on the table of security? In your example, it confuses you, because it tells you nothing but asks for a decision. In reality you have no choice. After all you want to run the program, so you will allow it in the end.

Disabling it does not cause harm. Malware does.

yes it doesnt cause issues till you get malware then its unrestricted to do whatever.
verified game caches an they all check fine except british armed forces has 3 files missing no idea what files or where to find them. uac is normal for when first installing/launching a program/game. guess ill just keep looking or get some IT tech to fix it lol

[Muppet among Puppets]

Remove my quote, its not the right thing as a general explanation. It might be wrong for average users.
What i tried to say, it wont save you just because its on. It can mislead and annoy you, causing it being ineffective and false sense of security.

Better is to make sure you dont get malware. There are several ways to do that.
If you use uac, try to set it that you know what it does and it does not just present need for decisions that are out of the blue. Each time it can be a hidden malware asking like being legit. Or it can be a legit thing, asking each time and you never know why.

Its rather about how it was made, than what it is.

Hope that makes it more clear.