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Re: Obtaining Windows 7 behavior on Windows 8
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:42:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: Obtaining Windows 7 behavior on Windows 8
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- References: <525B6603 dot 9030806 at cs dot umass dot edu>
* Eliot Moss (Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:33:23 -0400)
> I am upgrading from one laptop to another, the old one running
> Windows 7 and the new one Windows 8. On the old one, I disabled
> UAC and bash appears to run with admin privileges (which is what
> I normally want). In particular, if I say 'groups' then Administrators
> appears among the groups.
>
> On the Windows 8 machine, I have set UAC to the lowest value, but
> 'groups' does not include Administrators, even though the current
> user is an admin.
You cannot disable UAC this way in Windows 8 anymore. You have to
disable "Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode" group policy:
<http://windows.microsoft.com/is-is/windows7/how-do-i-change-the-
behavior-of-user-account-control-by-using-group-policy>
Thorsten
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