Uploaded May 2015 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
When User Account Control (UAC) is enabled the user is prompted when software is installed or changes are made to the computer.
Using secpol.msc it is possible to further refine UAC to be even tighter for security. This video shows how to tweak UAC.
For more visit:
http://www.windows10.ninja
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Transcript (machine generated so it contains errors)
Hi Again let's have a look at your your UAC User Account Control: more uses a local security policy editor okay so we go into set home.MSc okay click on that brings up over here then we go to local policy security options all the way boredom you'll see the User Account Control of course fortunately most of them are enabled okay now if you really really want to make it a little bit more secure okay you have a year User Account Control behaviour of the elevation prompt for administrators in admin okay you might Wanna actually make it this one which basically also prompts you to entering a password as well once during the UAC prompt even if you okay so that makes this a little bit more secure password all the time okay you might also want to go this ultra ultra secure okay but this is basically gonna call you some problems if you're running other software that has not signed okay only elevate executables that are signed and validated to basically all the present on our runner install need to be signed and also validated okay so the not signed by a proper certificate authority shall we say part or VeriSign for example it will not work egate you really want to go ultra secure that's nice locking down but make sure you know that all the programs are sign to indicate that's quite a nice one okay make sure that you have them all enabled all the way over your main okay run all administrators in admin approval mode quite nice okay switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation this is actually quite important to make sure that enables basically when you get that prompt okay is actually in that secure do something slightly different like a desktop that all the one programme has access to other programs running in the background cannot gain access to it okay so this is quite nice okay make sure that enabled okay and then if we have a quick look suspect what's for example anything that requires the UAC User Account Control cake click on that and see if that password as well that's just made everything a little bit more secure hopefully this helps and thank you for watching.
When User Account Control (UAC) is enabled the user is prompted when software is installed or changes are made to the computer.
Using secpol.msc it is possible to further refine UAC to be even tighter for security. This video shows how to tweak UAC.
For more visit:
http://www.windows10.ninja
2012r2.com
Transcript (machine generated so it contains errors)
Hi Again let's have a look at your your UAC User Account Control: more uses a local security policy editor okay so we go into set home.MSc okay click on that brings up over here then we go to local policy security options all the way boredom you'll see the User Account Control of course fortunately most of them are enabled okay now if you really really want to make it a little bit more secure okay you have a year User Account Control behaviour of the elevation prompt for administrators in admin okay you might Wanna actually make it this one which basically also prompts you to entering a password as well once during the UAC prompt even if you okay so that makes this a little bit more secure password all the time okay you might also want to go this ultra ultra secure okay but this is basically gonna call you some problems if you're running other software that has not signed okay only elevate executables that are signed and validated to basically all the present on our runner install need to be signed and also validated okay so the not signed by a proper certificate authority shall we say part or VeriSign for example it will not work egate you really want to go ultra secure that's nice locking down but make sure you know that all the programs are sign to indicate that's quite a nice one okay make sure that you have them all enabled all the way over your main okay run all administrators in admin approval mode quite nice okay switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation this is actually quite important to make sure that enables basically when you get that prompt okay is actually in that secure do something slightly different like a desktop that all the one programme has access to other programs running in the background cannot gain access to it okay so this is quite nice okay make sure that enabled okay and then if we have a quick look suspect what's for example anything that requires the UAC User Account Control cake click on that and see if that password as well that's just made everything a little bit more secure hopefully this helps and thank you for watching.
