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Asked: 2026-05-25T14:46:42+00:00

I’ve just installed Visual Studio 2010 on my home computer and as pictured below,

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I’ve just installed Visual Studio 2010 on my home computer and as pictured below, the icon displays with the UAC shield.

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This is of course not an issue, but is this normal behaviour on an administrator account with UAC turned off? I don’t recall having this on my work machine.

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    Yes, that is the correct behavior as recommended by Microsoft’s User Account Control Guidlines. The relevant part is under the “UAC shield icon” guidelines section and states:

    Display the UAC shield even if User Account Control has been turned
    off or the user is using the Built-in Administrator account.
    Consistently displaying the UAC shield is easier to program, and
    provides users with information about the nature of the task.

    You can read the whole document here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511445.aspx.

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