I currently am deploying windows 8.1 to my laptop users and am limiting them all to standard users.   I am running into an issue with a program they require.   I cant find a way to shut off uac for the standard users, how ever if i make them and administrator they are able to shut it off.   On my windows 7 systems I'm able to shut it off as the administrator for all users. 

Could someone tell me how to get this done in windows 8.1?

Thank you,

Rob

UAC can be completely disabled in the same way it was for the first Vista installations - by changing the EnableLUA value in the registry to 0.  But bear in mind that will completely disable the ability to run Metro/Modern applications - and there is no getting around this.

I'm not really sure what it is you're trying to accomplish.  Is this program they need to run unable to access particular files/folders it needs?  That's not a UAC issue at all, but one of file permissions / ACLs.

Can you please be a bit more specific about what's going wrong?

Hi Rob,

Neol is right, we don't recommend you to disable UAC since the Metro app will not run.

Also, this configuration is for current PC but not for certain users.

If you really want to do so, you can refer to this article:

Disabling User Account Control in Windows 8

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hyperyash/archive/2012/07/18/disabling-user-account-control-in-windows-8.aspx

Just some late feedback...

That's stupid. My users (kids and spouse) cannot run applications without me coming home from work to sign them in? OR I set up a really insecure system? !!

MSCRSFT still can't get it right forcing people into either inconvenient situations or insecure situations, and these two cases remain the ongoing complaints about Windows which has encouraged the gains for Apple.

Define "insecure system".

To be fair, if your "users" can't run what they want without a UAC prompt, it's the application software you're having them use that's at fault.  It is likely trying to do things that simply aren't compatible with non-privileged user accounts.  If you're unwilling to train them and trust them to use the computer in the ways those applications were designed for, and can't do things like set file permissions to make it possible for them to run them, then perhaps you need different applications.

Regarding making them all privileged...  It *is* actually possible to teach people to use a computer with administrative privileges without messing it up, by the way.  Restricting what they can do isn't the only solution.

-Noel