Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Windows Family Safety and Installing Programs Remotely

Alright so Family Safety is cool for monitoring your kids, but what if you are away and they need to install something? It doesn't put up a request for permission thing, so you can just do it through EasyConnect option in remote assistance. (Access Remote Assistance by typing in Remote in the search bar of the start menu and it comes up)

Anyway the problem with doing it this way is that the Admin cannot type anything into the UAC when it pops up. All you have to do is the following so you can remotely type in the password in UAC.

The option you want is this:
User Account Control: Allow UIAccess applications to prompt for elevation without using the secure desktop  

but when I searched for it, it only appeared under Windows GPO settings for Windows Server. You can remotely do it with the registry.

type in regedit in the search from the start menu.

Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System : EnableUIADesktopToggle

Then enable it by typing 1. You should now be able to type into the UAC window when helping in Remote Assistance.

Source(s):
http://www.itsecdb.com/oval/definition/oval/gov.nist.usgcb.windowsseven/def/20019/User-Account-Control-Allow-UIAccess-applications-to-prompt-.html

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