Hello I'm a developer and my workstation has Windows Server 2012 as its operating system.
Because I'm developing for Azure, a bunch of apps have to always run as admin (such as Visual Studio, PowerShell, Azure Emulators, etc…) so I disabled UAC with a script because it was forcing me to keep right clicking -> run as admin (which for me is a major pain)…
But now a bunch of apps, such as Windows store and Skype won't run saying "UAC is off so I won't run"
My question is: Is there a workaround that allows me to keep UAC off and still run these apps?
The exact error message is:
This app can't open
<App Name here>can't open while User Account Control is turned off.
Turn on User Account Control
Best Answer
The Windows Store, as well as "modern" apps from the Start screen will not run with UAC disabled. There is no supported way around this -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2736601