The blue/yellow shield won't disappear off some application icons. I'm not running it on admin, nor have I turned on UAC's the would enable it. Help please?

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/6817/capturegm4.pngPicture of what I'm talking about if it helps.

Right mouse click on the shortcut. Click on the application compatibility tab. What (if anything) is checked in there? If there is, uncheck it.

You won't be able to remove it. It's there as a warning. Your only fix is to remove Win7. Disabling UAC does not remove the requirement to elevate for effective use. It simply disables the nag screen, and makes it twice as hard to use admin rights.Rating posts helps other users Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP

I had the same need but couldn't find solution, so I did it myself. Modify imageres.dll. Just clear UAC icon, make it transparent (and Shortcut overlay at one shot). A side effect is that admin icon is missing in context menu, where "Run as Administrator" command is. Personally I can live with it!

The blue/yellow shield won't disappear off some application icons. I'm not running it on admin, nor have I turned on UAC's the would enable it. Help please? I had the same problem with Total Commander. In my case simply changing the icon to something else helped. Then you just change back to the original icon and that's it. Note: If you have the icon pinned to the start menu or taskbar, you won't be able to see the icon changed immediately. It seems that Windows caches the pinned icons and you can't just refresh them, you need to unpin and pin again (or log off and back in) to see the change.

while some ppl is worried about security (only me lol) others just want to leave it wide open like XP!Useless post but fair comment...RR

while some ppl is worried about security (only me lol) others just want to leave it wide open like XP! You are not alone, believe me. Many people, myself included, care about security and appreciate UAC. Those who get annoyed by the nag screens should stop whining and start thinking about how to manage their applications and files so that UAC stops bugging them all the time. I was able to get the most of my software to do its job without elevated privileges by simply modifying the permissions. As for the rest, they are really too small in number to complain. But people can't live without complaining, can they?

while some ppl is worried about security (only me lol) others just want to leave it wide open like XP! You are not alone, believe me. Many people, myself included, care about security and appreciate UAC. Those who get annoyed by the nag screens should stop whining and start thinking about how to manage their applications and files so that UAC stops bugging them all the time. I was able to get the most of my software to do its job without elevated privileges by simply modifying the permissions. As for the rest, they are really too small in number to complain. But people can't live without complaining, can they? *sigh* Constant annoyances are STILL ANNOYANCES. If you don't want to deal with the annoyances due to security,find a work-around, use a different os like *nix, or buy a mac and use thier software. While i do believe in security, i find most times that MS usually is late to the ball game. UAC while it's intentions are good, implementation leaves a lot to be desired. If you have a suspect application, flag it and stop it from continuing it's processes. MS's idea is to flag the application and halt all use of the OS until the user deals with the situation. A tad overboard if you ask me. Calling people whingers and such solves no issue at all. Stating that they have no worries about security doesn't either. Truth be told, microsoft doesn't exactly have the best track record for security if you ask me, but i still use thier products because there are other solutions available. My advice is this: If you use MS and have a problem, feel free to ask around for solutions. If you use MS and can't stand people asking for help, simply don't respond / read the posts. If you don't want to deal with MS, then simply don't. It's beginning to get old all these MS huggers fighting the *Nix guys, and the Mac guys, and vice verse, and the normal everyday user gets caught in the crossfire, usually when asking a simple question or trying to find a solution. If you're going to help people help them, if not, and you just want to express your opinion on how THEY should run THEIR pc's, STFU already. It's not your place. Next time you get the idea to post in a thread telling people how they should operate their computers, think on how you would feel if someone decided to make all of your decisions for you.

Point taken, ArcAiN6. My previous post might have sounded like I'm a blind Microsoft admirer, but that's far from reality. Yes, I think UAC is good, but it doesn't change the fact that the permissions system is ridiculously overcomplicated. Setting permissions quickly becomes a royal pain in the buttocks, when there are lots of files from the previous installations, nested in sub-folders. Even if you change the ownership of the entire tree, there will always be some "disobedient" files scattered here and there, that for some reason refuse to inherit permissions automatically, having you to do it manually in each case. While most of the things in Windows 7 are streamlined, the permissions system remains to be cumbersome. Microsoft surely has a lot of work to do in this particular area.

That worked perfect - thanks!

I've dealt with security settings in both a business setting and my own personal network for many years and still get confused from time to time. UAC is a great step forward from where things were. I strongly agree with those who feel some of the settings are far too complicated, unfortunately the only way to fix the issues would be to start back at square one, and in that case forget backwards compatibility with older systems like xp. I think the main topic of this thread got lost however. The issue here isn't about complaining for the sake of complaining. A user just has some icons that are being covered by another icon. This bothers me too. I have no problem with the warning that comes up when I try to run certain programs, (Microsoft is just trying to help us out a little) but like others, my problem is with the fact that I cant remove the overlay icon. It won't kill us, but it's the little things that make products so great.

Hey, I found an easy solution that worked. Right click the program then click properties.Then click the Compatibility tab at the top.The at the bottom you will see Privilege Level and under that it will have a checkbox that says Run this program as an admin. uncheck that (note that if it is grayed out click the Change settings for all users button on the bottom). This you just change the icon to something random...then back to the original icon. THEN everything is back to normal. PS: To those who dont know how to change the icon: Right click the program click properties then click the Shortcut tab....at the bottom of this it will say Change Icon The rest is self explanitory.