User Account Control screen pops up every time I open my AOL email app

[JohnLouis]

In order to keep the User Account Control screen from popping up every time I open my AOL email app, I have to set the User Account Control level to a not-recommended, unsafe level.  Is there a way of telling the computer I will always allow AOL to run to avoid the nuisance of dealing with the User Account Control screen every time?

[Dragon-Fur · Accepted solution]

@JohnLouis 

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@JohnLouis wrote:

In order to keep the User Account Control screen from popping up every time I open my AOL email app, I have to set the User Account Control level to a not-recommended, unsafe level.  Is there a way of telling the computer I will always allow AOL to run to avoid the nuisance of dealing with the User Account Control screen every time?

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Generally, yes - though I cannot confirm that AOL would honor the methods to do so.

Rather than pick for you, do a quick search for "turn off UAC for one application" (or anything similar).

The results will include answers from a variety of sources, including TenForums, Microsoft Community, and other generally trusted sites.

In general, create an elevated shortcut, change the way the task is managed.

Select a couple of the articles to read and choose something that makes sense to your situation, your skill set, and your sense of "this sounds right for me".

A couple of good examples

How to Create Elevated App Shortcut without UAC Prompt in Windows 10 

command to Turn off UAC prompts on specific Apps 

Before you make any File System changes, particularly if you decide to download / install something (anything), consider creating a Restore Point for your computer.

Restore Point might not help if you manager to break the security (unlikely but possible), but it can help you back out of simpler changes to the Operating System.

Create Restore Point

Stop all programs:  Browsers, games, Applications, etc.

Control Panel > icon view > System > System Protection

Click (Highlight) your main disk (C) > Select Create a Restore Point

OR

(As available)

Create a restore point now for the drives that have system protection turned on

Create

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[JohnLouis]

Thanks Dragon-Fur.

I used the the 14-Step Task Scheduler method you gave.  Everything went well until creating a shortcut for the task.  I just typed schtasks.exe /run /tn "TaskName" in the location field per Step 11, and it could not find the file.  Eventually I figured out the command in the shortcut location for Step 11 should be C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn "TaskName".  Once I did that, I got my shortcut.  Thanks again.

JohnLouis

[Dragon-Fur]

@JohnLouis 

You are welcome.

Thanks for posting back the correction.

This can help others who find / have the same issue.

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