rootwrld Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 I'm trying to run a powershell script as admin, but need to bypass windows UAC. It seems ALT-Y no longer works, but i havent seen any new methods for doing this. Is it just not possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rootwrld Posted January 10 Author Share Posted January 10 ALT-TABing through all windows spamming alt-y should work but im not sure how to do this with bunnyscript. Submitted my post a little pre-maturely and cant edit, so making a reply instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuyaya Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 So what exactly doesn't work anymore? The behaviour of UAC hasn't changed in Windows. Alt-y just basically selects the field which starts with a "y", in the UAC case it is "yes". But this only works if the fields says "yes", in other languages, for example german, it would be Alt-j (because of "ja"). You can do a rightarrow followed by enter, which is cross-language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rootwrld Posted January 13 Author Share Posted January 13 On 1/11/2022 at 5:59 AM, kuyaya said: So what exactly doesn't work anymore? The behaviour of UAC hasn't changed in Windows. Alt-y just basically selects the field which starts with a "y", in the UAC case it is "yes". But this only works if the fields says "yes", in other languages, for example german, it would be Alt-j (because of "ja"). You can do a rightarrow followed by enter, which is cross-language. UAC seems to no longer be selected when an elevated powershell windows is launched. If you're on 21H1 give it a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuyaya Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 On 1/13/2022 at 2:17 PM, rootwrld said: UAC seems to no longer be selected when an elevated powershell windows is launched. If you're on 21H1 give it a try. Hm, I'm on 20H2, sorry. Can you make a recording or something like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanicAcid Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 (edited) It's a windows feature, the UAC prompt no longer appears within the same context as the other windows. So until you click on it with the mouse it's not within the keyboards context. You can change this with a registry key however. I can't remember the reg key but if you can find the windows ADMX template for this group policy it'll be in there: Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options > User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation to Disabled Edit: The registry key is called EnableUIADesktopToggle More info on that here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/user-account-control/user-account-control-group-policy-and-registry-key-settings Also just for anybody who's wondering this is NOT a UAC bypass issue, this is handling the UAC prompt when the local user is an administrator. UAC bypassing is completely different to the OPs issue. Edited January 27 by PanicAcid Adding more info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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