I need to allow any non-administrator to change the font smoothing settings using the Cleartype Text Tuner wizard. Whenever a non-administrator user runs the wizard, they are unable to apply their chosen setting, as a UAC prompt appears and requires an administrator to authenticate. How can we configure all workstations in the domain to permit a non-administrator to change this setting without the UAC prompt?

Hi, thank you for posting here. Based on my test, you can change UAC to let non-administrator user to change ClearType Text Tuner. Please follow these steps below: 1 Login with administrator and click “Start” 2 Input “UAC” in search box and press Enter 3 Change the notify setting to “Never notify” and click “OK” 4 Restart PC Then change anther non-administrator user login, and use ClearType Text Tuner. Furthermore, you can check if Group Policy setting will help: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg176671(WS.10).aspx Search “Font settings” on the above page. Hope it works. Regards, Leo HuangPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Thanks Leo Whilst that does allow the non-admin to change their Clear Type preference, it's a far from an ideal solution to disable UAC completely. UAC is very useful and we want to keep it on. The question really is can UAC be configured to allow specific functions which don't need that level of protection, whilst leaving it enabled in general? There is no group policy setting I've found that allows or disallows changing ClearType settings; the font settings policy in the link you mention relates to Internet Explorer's font settings.

I’m afraid it hard to realized it. It is by design. Regards, Leo Huang Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

I am also trying to resolve this problem. Any success from your tries?

I am also trying to resolve this problem. Any success from your tries? Unfortunately not. It seems a major design flaw.

This was marked as the answer but I don't think it's helpful to mark it as such, as it dissuades others from offering a more satisfactory solution. As stated in the earlier reply, this suggestion involves disabling UAC completely which isn't acceptable in an environment which needs UAC.

How about a Reg hack to enable it. Is there a registry key? Not worried about tuning, just the enable part. It looks like users can tune once its enabled, they just cant enable it in the first place. We would like to enable it by default. vbscript? anything useful!?Onion

I think i found a possible solution. You have to add the reg Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics\DISPLAY1] "PixelStructure"=dword:00000001 "GammaLevel"=dword:00000708 If you have more than one display just make another DISPLAYx Key. Background: You only have to input an administrator the first time you run cttune.exe. The next times you don´t need an administrativ user. The reg Key above is exactly the values cctune.exe writes into the registry at the first run. So you can customize "PixelStructure" and "GammaLevel" how do you like it. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970267%28v=vs.90%29.aspx

I think i found a possible solution. You have to add the reg Key:... Fantastic, that works! Easy job to push those reg entries out by group policy or include in our desktop image. Thanks very much!

There are still one Problem left. If you switch the first text (1 of 4) you still need the admin rights. All other text are possible without admin rights. I allready saw at the reg, that in this case the value "PixelStructure"=dword:00000001 will switch to dword:00000002. cttune.exe gives the edited values to cttunesvr.exe (needs the admin rights) to add them into the reg. so maybe theres a chance by "tuning" the cttunesvr.exe...? Any ideas?