I've found a few previous threads about similar issues, often with UAC on Vista.
I have many instances of Senplay in a script, and these are not working when I have UAC on anything other than off, even when I am logged in as an Administrator.
Can anyone suggest any way in which I can have UAC on (preferably full for security reasons) but also have my AHK Sendplays working?
Cheers
Want UAC on (Win7) but Sendplay not working
Started by
borgman
, Jan 26 2011 12:44 PM
3 replies to this topic
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Posted 26 January 2011 - 12:44 PM
From my limited understanding of UAC: If you are running with a User account instead of an administrator account having UAC disabled poses no security risk as UAC will only pop up when a program needs administrator level permissions. You can still get the same function by right clicking the program/file and selecting run as administrator.
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Posted 26 January 2011 - 02:00 PM
borgman: No. The underlying mechanism of SendPlay is not compatible with UAC. Disable UAC or use a different SendMode.
rseding91: I believe User Interface Privelege Isolation (UIPI) is part of UAC and therefore will not work if UAC is disabled. In other words, lower-privileged applications would be able to send messages to or inject code into higher-privileged applications (launched by the user with Run As), which would pose a security risk. Additionally, I think Internet Explorer's "protected mode" depends on UAC. Thus, there are still benefits to having UAC enabled.
rseding91: I believe User Interface Privelege Isolation (UIPI) is part of UAC and therefore will not work if UAC is disabled. In other words, lower-privileged applications would be able to send messages to or inject code into higher-privileged applications (launched by the user with Run As), which would pose a security risk. Additionally, I think Internet Explorer's "protected mode" depends on UAC. Thus, there are still benefits to having UAC enabled.
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Posted 27 January 2011 - 12:26 AM
For the searchers: Enable interaction with administrative programs
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Posted 05 February 2012 - 07:30 PM