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Create Administrator Mode Shortcuts Without UAC Prompts in Windows 7 or Vista

One of the most talked about annoyances in Windows Vista are the UAC prompts that constantly pop up when you are trying to make system changes. It's especially irritating when you often need to run a particular tool that requires administrator mode in order to run. Thankfully there's a simple hack that you can do to create an administrator mode shortcut that doesn't prompt for UAC.

June 15, 2008 · 1 min · 61 words · Molly Freeman

If that sounds difficult, it’s really not… just follow through the instructions below.

As you’re free to see, I used runregedit as the name for the task.

confirm you enter the task name like this, replacing the capitalized letters for the name of your task.

Create Administrator Mode Shortcuts Without UAC Prompts in Windows 7 or Vista

At this point you should have a shortcut that will launch the utility in administrator mode.