Lots of UAC prompts appear from time to time

With the latest build 10061, I regularly get 6 subsequent UAC prompts. The program that causes the prompts starts with C:\Windows\System32\Systemsett, but the path is too long to fit in the UAC window, so I don't know the name of the binary (there seem to
be two that match).
The prompts vary in the additional parameters, I can't memorize all, but there are things such as "setflightsdetectionfrequency" and "setflightsthresholdinternal".
These prompts also appear when searching for updates manually or when changing update settings. I'm running UAC at the most "paranoid" level, I haven't tried if switching to a lower level resolves the issue.
Is anyone else affected? Any ideas how to get rid of this (apart from disabling UAC)?
Thanks in advance.

>Is there a way to file bug reports so that the developers can have a look at the issue? I don't think they are reading this discussion board.
That's what the feedback app is for in the start menu...
Bob Comer
Thank you. I haven't noticed this app so far
The problem is already reported there (just search for 'UAC'), so it would probably be helpful if everyone who is affected would vote for it.

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I think I see why we were having a disconnect earlier when discussing this. I had some time so I did some more testing and found the following.
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I just started seeing that behavior on a computer that has a fresh installation of windows 8. For a few weeks after installation, it worked as expected. Then it started prompting for user credentials when running task manager as a non-admin user.
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Just today I started getting strange UAC prompts from the program "Network" (with CLSID {E5A040E9-1097-4D24-B89E-3C730036D615}) whenever a network connects (plugging in Ethernet cable, connecting to a wireless network)...etc. It occurs on two Windows 8 machines
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Hello,
I had that problem as well and the apple support suggested to turn off the LTE-mode to have a running system and try to exchange the micro-sim by my provider.
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Hey!
I did not have flash installed. Using Windows 7 64-bit together with Internet Explorer 8 I went to a web page and then suddenly UAC prompted me something about Adobe Flash Player. I quickly hit cancel and didn't click on "Details". This worried me. So I went to another site I knew had flash, after some browsing there I got the UAC prompt again and this time I hit details and I got this "Download from Internet" (Sorry for not exact translation, I have a different language OS)
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Hi, There is nothing to be concerned about. The UAC stands for User Account Control and is a Security Feature from Windows Internet Explorer. Since most websites use Flash, every website that does will want you to Install Flash Player. Since the Install of Flash Player also Installs an ActiveX Control, then IE will give you that Security Warning from the UAC.
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I need to merge reg files as a standard user.
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I would like to run regedit.exe as a standard user, without UAC prompt, to merge some .reg files in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER path (standard user has permissions to do so).
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<assembly xmlns="urnchemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity
processorArchitecture="x86"
version="1.0.0.0"
name="Microsoft.Windows.Regedit" type="win32" />
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<dependency>
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            processorArchitecture="x86"
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And I've had another thought
Edit the registry and change
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell\open\command
to
reg import "%1"
Reg will import regfiles.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT is a registry key that is composed of merging the
following two keys.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes
with entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER overriding entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
So to specifically edit for the current user only edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER and
for all users (that don't have a user entry) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
EG
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\regfile\shell\open\command and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\regfile\shell\open\command
"DavidMCandy" wrote in message news:4d9feb10-65cb-4b9b-ab3b-627692973523...
> You could edit the application manifest (they are known by the number 24)
> embedded in the application. You use ResHacker
> (http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/) to export the manifest, edit it,
> and
> then replace the embedded manifest with the edited one.
>
> But on Vista the manifest seemsto allow execution by nonadmins. It's
> listed
> as
> <requestedExecutionLevel
>
> level="highestAvailable"
>
> uiAccess="false"
>
> />
>
> and according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx it
> means
>
> highestAvailable
> The application runs with the highest privileges the current user can
> obtain.
>
> Experiment and see what happens if you change it to AsInvoker.
>
> To edit Regedit you'll need to give yourself permission to change
> c:\windows\regedit.exe
>
> Click Start - All Programs - Accessories - Right click
> Command Prompt and choose Run As Administrator. Type
>
> takeown /f c:\windows\regedit.exe /a
> icacls c:\windows\regedit.exe /grant Administrators:f
>
>
> --
> ..
> --
> "DavidMCandy" wrote in message
> news:58f05c55-c6ac-4762-aad2-011ff129ec24...
>> Convert them to a VBSscript or a batfile (it appears Reg.exe doesn't
>> honour
>> this setting).
>>
>> VBS
>>
>> Dim Sh
>> Set Sh = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
>> Sh.RegDelete "HKCU\Software\ACME\"
>> WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\ACME\FortuneTeller\", 1, "REG_BINARY"
>>
>>
>> Batch
>>
>> Forhelp and examples type
>> reg add /?
>> --
>> ..
>> --
>> "bjohnrini" wrote in message news:cbf09759-a94f-44ee-88de-0bc762fcc5f8...
>>> Is there anyway to run regedit.exe as a standar user?
>>>
>>> I have my group policy set to Ã¢â‚¬Â¢ Automatically deny elevation
>>> requests
>>> for
>>> User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard
>>> users.
>>>
>>> This simply gives me "This program is blocked by group policy"
>>>
>>> On Windows 7.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

HT2500 whenever I open the mail application a flurry of past emails appears from nowhere. How do I stop this happening ?

whenever I open the mail application a flurry of past emails appears from nowhere. How do I stop this happening ?

1. If by flurry of emails you mean they all appear opened as if clicked on.
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Decided to setup the mail for exchange on my N8 so I could see my work emails. Worked like a charm but after a couple of hours decided I didn't like being that contactable so deleted the mailbox.
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