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Windows UAC – Is that your final answer?

By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 05-Aug-2007

So I was kind of bored today …
And it’s been a long time since I posted anything …

I’ve been hard at work … among other things I’ve made lots of progress on PoshConsole, and I’ve been playing with PowerShell a lot. If anyone knows anyone using Vista who still has UAC turned on, do them a favor:

1) Download a wav of Regis saying “Is that your final answer?”
2) Put it on their computer somewhere
3) Open up PowerShell (to the folder where you put the wav) and run this command:


Set-ItemProperty -path HKCU:\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\WindowsUAC\.Current\ -name "(default)" $(Resolve-Path "FinalAnswer.wav")
 

:D Obviously you can do that in the “Sound” control panel too, it’s the last event under the “Windows” app, labelled “Windows User Account Control” ... now whenever Windows asks for permission to run something, they’ll get a bit of a chuckle out of it. Makes it more bearable. ;)

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