UAC prompts NOT displaying at all

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The situation:

(1 and 2 are background info)

1) My customer upgraded from Windows 7 Home Premium to Pro (64bit) - this may or may not be part of the problem but I include it FYI.

2) Various DLLs will not register - the error says they cannot be found - they are there, in SysWOW64. Sorry that I don't have the EXACT wording at the moment. In any case, I think the core problem is #3. NOTE: the involved DLLs register on my Windows 7 Pro 64 bit machine without issue and with/without UAC prompts appropirately depending on my settings.

3) On the customer's machine, regardless of the UAC settings or the secpol.msc User Account Control settings, there is no prompting for permission.

The next thing I will be trying is to sign on as a standard user - this in the hopes of seeing that the UAC prompting system is at all functional. My suspicion is that something is broken in the UAC and, since it isn't prompting, it is JUST failing.

Has anyone run into a completely non-functional UAC system and found a fix short of re-installing/re-upgrading the OS ?

Thanks,
3XaC

Posted 29-Aug-12 3:19am

3rdTimesACharm

Updated 29-Aug-12 13:07pm

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Akinmade Bond · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-30T00:51:00

Solution 1

Attempt ...

1) Type action center in the start menu and on the left side, select Change User Access Control Settings set it to highest.

2) Open the Run dialog using WinKey + R and type control userpasswords2 select your username, select properties, then select the membership tab and set yourself to administrator.

3) Open Command prompt as administrator, you must've restarted the system by now and enter sfc /scannow it will attempt to fix your system errors. You can then download some dll's here

Good luck.

Posted 30-Aug-12 0:51am

Akinmade Bond

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3rdTimesACharm 30-Aug-12 10:57am

I didn't need any DLLs and since I wasn't sure what clicking "here" would do, I didn't.

Most of the settings were already as you specified. The sfc /scannow did find some problems and fixed them. After that, the DLLs registered successfully.

Thanks for your help, geekbond. I appreciate it.

Akinmade Bond 30-Aug-12 11:15am

Glad I could help. :)