steam keeps asking for premission for games to open. windows 10

[RimJobMaster]

every time I open up a steam game, a UAC pops up, it's starting to become annoying
Windows 10
64 bit
. Please help

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Queef king:

every time I open up a steam game, a UAC pops up, it's starting to become annoying
Windows 10
64 bit
. Please help

I have seen this before. The UAC is asking for permission most likely because your Steam needs to update on launch. But something such as antivirus for example , is stopping that update. So it can be an endless loop with this problem.

What is your antivirus program ?

Check this list from top to bottom. Read it all very carefully. Besides antivirus programs, do you have ANY other software listed there ?

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

[RimJobMaster]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Originally posted by Queef king:

every time I open up a steam game, a UAC pops up, it's starting to become annoying
Windows 10
64 bit
. Please help

I have seen this before. The UAC is asking for permission most likely because your Steam needs to update on launch. But something such as antivirus for example , is stopping that update. So it can be an endless loop with this problem.

What is your antivirus program ?

Check this list from top to bottom. Read it all very carefully. Besides antivirus programs, do you have ANY other software listed there ?

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

i have the free version of avast, it's never messed with steam

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Queef king:

i have the free version of avast, it's never messed with steam

You did not answer my other question.

Do you have Steam and games set as exceptions in Avast ?

This is just one reason why I never install Steam inside any UAC protected folders. I always install Steam in its own folder all by itself.

[RimJobMaster]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Originally posted by Queef king:

i have the free version of avast, it's never messed with steam

You did not answer my other question.

Do you have Steam and games set as exceptions in Avast ?

This is just one reason why I never install Steam inside any UAC protected folders. I always install Steam in its own folder all by itself.

yes it's excluded, so avast shouldn't be bothering me

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Queef king:

yes it's excluded, so avast shouldn't be bothering me

I will ask you again, and if you do not answer, I will have to assume that I cannot help you...

Originally posted by Queef king:

Check this list from top to bottom. Read it all very carefully. Besides antivirus programs, do you have ANY other software listed there ?

Except that you can move your Steam out of any UAC protected folders. See this...

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

[RimJobMaster]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Originally posted by Queef king:

yes it's excluded, so avast shouldn't be bothering me

I will ask you again, and if you do not answer, I will have to assume that I cannot help you...

Originally posted by Queef king:

Check this list from top to bottom. Read it all very carefully. Besides antivirus programs, do you have ANY other software listed there ?

Except that you can move your Steam out of any UAC protected folders. See this...

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

It worked, thanks

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Queef king:

It worked, thanks

If you could please be more specific as to what fixed this issue for you, it could help others in the community that see your thread and have a similar problem. Thanks.

[RimJobMaster]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Originally posted by Queef king:

It worked, thanks

If you could please be more specific as to what fixed this issue for you, it could help others in the community that see your thread and have a similar problem. Thanks.

I moved all my steam folders and where my games download to an outside of uac folder, I then launched a game to see if it worked and it did! :) thanks

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Queef king:

Originally posted by The Giving One:

If you could please be more specific as to what fixed this issue for you, it could help others in the community that see your thread and have a similar problem. Thanks.

I moved all my steam folders and where my games download to an outside of uac folder, I then launched a game to see if it worked and it did! :) thanks

Thank you also for replying as to what you did to fix it. Much appreciated here. Good luck to you always.

[nxv]

2019 fix for myself

when you launch the game or steam and if gives you the UAC permission page, it will have a show more tab at the bottom, click that. and it will say choose when to be notified in there in very light text. click that and slide the bar to never notify.

[steamtyler4]

Originally posted by nxv:

:asterisk: 2019 fix for myself :asterisk:

when you launch the game or steam and if gives you the UAC permission page, it will have a show more tab at the bottom, click that. and it will say choose when to be notified in there in very light text. click that and slide the bar to never notify. :ragebs:

Better late than never but thank you for this quick fix ✌️

[Iceira]

Because OP migrated windows 6 own screwup UAC win7 setttingts to win10.
why we know because post is from 2016

UAC turn off in win10 is not a option, its use it to ID a user, and app need it for user identification.

This post is outdate and wrong in so many ways.

a 2016 post with win7 migrated issue into win10, i bet.

[Charlie]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.