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I'd like to disable UAC, but that presents a problem. One of the side-effects of UAC is that it forces applications that want to store configuration data in the application folder to actually store it in a "VirtualStore" folder in the user folder. Disabling UAC without moving those files over actually messes up the applications (for instance, Trillian forgets all your user profile info because it can suddenly look for it in the local directory again). For some applications (like Trillian) I like this behavior because it makes it easier to migrate settings. For other applications, though, I don't like this behavior, mostly because
An example: Eclipse. It's designed to be able to have access to its install directory. I don't want to confirm each time I start it up. It's worse for something like python or Octave, which precompile a lot of their libraries. These files really ought to be in the application directory, not in a hidden user-specific folder.
Is there a way of turning off UAC while forcing some applications to run as a limited user by default?
An example: Eclipse. It's designed to be able to have access to its install directory. I don't want to confirm each time I start it up. It's worse for something like python or Octave, which precompile a lot of their libraries. These files really ought to be in the application directory, not in a hidden user-specific folder.
Is there a way of turning off UAC while forcing some applications to run as a limited user by default?
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