Steam and UAC

[Aelius]

Why does steam give me a UAC prompt *every single time* I launch a game? Nothing bad even happens when I decline it! Everything still works!

This is unnecessary at best and a huge security flaw at worst.

[TirithRR]

Steam doesn't give me any UAC prompts.

Have you set Steam to run as Admin?

[Aelius]

No

[TirithRR]

Go to your User Account Control Settings and see if it is set too high (like, "Always Notify").

[Aelius]

It is, because I set it there. This is a problem with steam, I'm not going to alter my system's security settings for the faults of one program.

I should mention I have a properly configured user environment (something apparently incredibly rare on windows, as windows itself encourages you to create just *your* account after install)

Like any linux/bsd/unix box:
Day to day [windows] user is only a 'user', and another account is created to be the 'admin'.

UAC plays the role of 'su' and runs an app as the admin user- which means a different profile from the normal user.

I do run into problems from time to time with programs which need admin privs and have no support for, or only partial support for UAC (the developers unaware of its actual purpose).

However, neither steam nor the game are running as the admin user, which indicates that steam actually handles UAC correctly- only with spawned subproceses that don't rely on user folders. I'm surprised, and thankful.

Even if I say 'yes' to the prompt, the game is still, correctly, run as my user account. Not sure what steam is doing here. Probably a bug, or a redundant thing that runs every time 'just in case'. Hopefully someone knows more about the internal workings and can elaborate on this.

[Chas.]

TirithRR の投稿を引用：

Go to your User Account Control Settings and see if it is set too high (like, "Always Notify").

Link Satonaka の投稿を引用：

It is, because I set it there.

/thread

[Aelius]

Chaz の投稿を引用：

TirithRR の投稿を引用：

Go to your User Account Control Settings and see if it is set too high (like, "Always Notify").

Link Satonaka の投稿を引用：

It is, because I set it there.

/thread

The scope of this thread is discussing why steam does this, not ways to bypass it.

[Spawn of Totoro]

That is a Windows issue and does not involve Steam or the Steam Client. If you set it to the most sensitive setting, then that is on you.

Link Satonaka の投稿を引用：

The scope of this thread is discussing why steam does this, not ways to bypass it.

No, this is the Help and Tips forum where people go to ask for assistance with Steam and Steam related issues.

As you have created your own problem and seem to know what to do to fix it, I will be closing this thread.