Why Do I Get An UAC Prompt When I Start Task Manager From The Desktop?

Windows 8 Pro X64
In Windows 7 Ultimate x64 if I start Task Manager by right clicking on the taskbar and selecting it it starts without any UAC prompt running in my security context.  It is only if I click on show processes from all users that I get an UAC
prompt for an administrator password.
In Windows 8 Pro x64 I get the UAC prompt when I start Task Manager by right clicking on the taskbar in the Desktop environment.  Why?
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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.
Fresh Windows 8 install with a normal user account (non-admin) has NO UAC PROMPT for taskmgr, regedit, etc.  It just opens under the current user context, same as Windows 7 did.
Upgraded Windows 8 from Windows 7 install gives a UAC prompt for taskmgr, etc. under the same situation.  I made sure they were in the same OU with the same policies and the same UAC level.  No prompts!  That's the part that never made sense
to me.  If you can run an app and then use your non-admin credentials at the UAC prompt and it still runs, why did it prompt in the first place?  Makes no sense.  And it turns out that it doesn't look like this is default behavior but something
messed up on the 7-to-8 computers I'm dealing with.
So am I missing some setting or something for Windows 7 to 8 upgrade or is this a bug?
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. 
If I enter the credentials of the user who started it (the non-admin user I'm logged on as) it opens and works as expected.

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