Windows 7 Taskforce

UAC settings per app, or allow to "Trust" an application, or "remember last setting per app"

Submitted by DamianK on April 1, 2009 to Annoyance, Legacy, Usability

Problem: I have certain legacy apps that don't have publisher certs and every time the application starts the UAC asks me if I "want to allow this application to make changes to the computer" ...

gets annoying after a while.

P.S. I would appreciate if people who demote this idea posted a reason why they did so.

Solution: Either:

1) Add a checkmark to the dialog box to remember the last answer
or
2) allow to specify which applications to trust (yeah, I know that's what the certs are for) but these are legacy apps. Can't we "create" a cert manually for these ?

Severity: Medium

Impact: Medium

Status: Not fixed