{"id":431,"date":"2016-06-20T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=431"},"modified":"2022-11-05T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:53:18","slug":"disable-uac-in-microsoft-windows-2012-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Disable UAC in Microsoft Windows 2012 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you like me, don&#8217;t want to have an admin prompt each time you want to save a file to a server you can disable UAC, by ensuring that all Administrators of the server don&#8217;t require approval to make minor changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if you say had a file on the C: drive you were trying to update, without the setting below on, you&#8217;d be prompted to save a new file, as UAC basically makes all the files read only, unless you have got approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To turn this off do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Open \u2018Local security Policy\u2019 by running \u2018Secpol.msc\u2019 in the command line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Go to \u2013 Local Policies -&gt; Security Options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. On the right side scroll down to \u2018User Account Control: run all Administrators in admin approval mode\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Change the setting to \u2018Disabled\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Restart the server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like me, don&#8217;t want to have an admin prompt each time you want to save a file to a server you can disable UAC, by ensuring that all Administrators of the server don&#8217;t require approval to make minor changes. So if you say had a file on the C: drive you were trying &#8230; <a title=\"Disable UAC in Microsoft Windows 2012 R2\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=431\" aria-label=\"Read more about Disable UAC in Microsoft Windows 2012 R2\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}