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- Thank you BumSkull for your feedback. I will let the team know about this ask.
alexbal Its a terminal emulator for our AS400. It stores it settings in HKLM/Software so it needs read and write access. Also uploads/downloads data via CSV files that can only be stored in the root of the c drive. Any attempts to run this app fail with UAC on. Even runing as admin with UAC on the app doesn't work right. It has not been updated since win7 days.
the application doesn't need to be patched or updated, you can build a shim for this application
if you haven't already the easiest thing you can try running it in compatibility for XP which is essentially pre UAC existing level compatibility, on first glance i would assume that you need to disable write virtualisation
the compatibility features in windows are genuinely good, though not too obvious to find or use, however i promise you this app can run on windows 10 without disabling UAC system wide
I understand that this is not what you are asking, but i urge you that pursuing this option should definitely be the long term goal
disabling UAC, just like disabling AV or firewall, should only be ever be a temporary measure for troubleshooting
a lot has changed since vista but the same advice and arguments which were relevant then still get thrown around now
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Originally we did try and run in compatibility mode without success. Admitidly we have not looked back into this since the first release of Win10. Everything has been working perfect with UAC off for us and im afraid that turning it on will cause 10x the amout of issues at this point we just dont have the resources to take on that level work.
- BumSkull
Yeah turning UAC back on can be a nightmare because app will suddenly get redirected to the virtualized name space where anything they have written to the per app name space will be gone.
That’s why suiting apps using app campat toolkit or more likely app-v is useful, I suspect your app is a collection of apps that need to read and write from the same virtualized locations (hklm, root, etc as that’s how the pass information between them.)
think of this as a research project for the summer, you are going to need to address some it day (or replace the app). Or accept oddities in apps when UAC is off.
