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Offline Roger...

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UAC Icon Appearance after All In One Execution
« on: October 01, 2015, 11:22:50 am »
Last weekend "All-in-One" executed a task list with most of the methods enabled. 
Before executing it installed an update.  A test this morning shows it is current @ 3.5.0.1.

After the repairs completed and computer rebooted, many program icons displayed a Windows UAC (Use Account Control) icon badge.  That UAC badge was also given to the Repair_Windows.exe software.  It didn't have that designation before the repair.

A UAC badge honor is a promise to always ask the user: "Do you want the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer."

Moving the UAC setting to its lowest level stops UAC nagging.

Some of the programs with a UAC badge are the same but were installed in different folders.  Most of those duplicate program them don't have the UAC icon (See attached image).  Almost all the programs with a new UAC badge are installed on drive "D."

What might have happened during a repair that changed have how Windows viewed the same program, even with the same release to have more risk?

What can I do to remove the nagging without giving up on UAC protection?

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Re: UAC Icon Appearance after All In One Execution
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2015, 12:06:38 am »
The repair UAC would have turned the UAC back on. Which the UAC would have started updating the icons, that was done after the repair icons, if you ran it, which deletes the icon cache database.

So if you made some changes and the icons are not updating it may just be a matter of deleting the icon database to force windows to update the icons again.

Shane