Suppress all UAC prompts for standard users without breaking the Microsoft Store in Windows 8.1?

UAC is disabled (EnableLua reg key = 0) on our Windows 7 build and neither standard users nor admins see any UAC prompts. We want to replicate this on our Windows 8.1 build without breaking the Microsoft Store, but disabling UAC by setting the EnableLua reg key to 0 breaks the Microsoft Store, so we have to set the EnableLua reg key to 1 which means standard users are prompted for credentials when trying to access regedit, etc. Not ideal. In an attempt to suppress the UAC prompts for standard users, I changed the ConsentPromptBehaviorUser reg key from 0 to 6, based on the following testing:-

0 = "your system administrator has blocked this program" when trying to run ActiveSetup reg keys during 
1 = asks for admin credentials when launching UAC which is set to Always Notify
2 = asks for admin credentials when launching UAC which is set to Always Notify
3 = asks for admin credentials when launching UAC which is set to Always Notify me (and do not dim my desktop) when:
6 = asks for admin credentials when launching UAC which is set to Never Notify

How can we suppress all UAC prompts for standard users (i.e. non-admins) without breaking the Microsoft Store please?

Thanks
Scott



  • Edited by mr5h Wednesday, July 01, 2015 3:00 PM
July 1st, 2015 2:50pm

Hi mr5h,

According to description, I tested with the following configurations and it is available to get into the Store with the following configurations both the standard user and the admin.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA = 1

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ ConsentPromptBehaviorUser = 0

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ ConsentPromptadminUser =0

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