Mastering Windows Group Policy

User Account Control – Behavior of the Elevation Prompt for Standard Users

This is the same idea as our previous setting, but now we are talking about affecting UAC permissions for the majority of your users—anyone who is a Standard User. Default behavior is to prompt the user for administrative credentials, as we saw when I tried to open an elevated PowerShell window.

Here you will also find an option that says Prompt for credentials on the secure desktop. This setting changes the look and feel of the UAC prompt to something that is Windows-specific. This allows you to give a sense of assurance that the UAC prompt is really from Windows, and is not a fake prompt being presented by a malware application. The third option here is to Automatically ...