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UAC tells me I dont have privileges to select my graphics card?
Hi!
I am at the end of my tether on what to do so I hope someone here may help me
I upgraded to Windows 10 pro 64 from win 7 pro 64bit a month ago and all is fine except for this one nagging issue, which i have gotten around but in doing so it stops me from using other features it seems:
When I upgraded to windows 10, i noticed suddenly that a great many of my programs and games, all have the little blue and yellow shield icon attached to their launch shortcuts and exes and as it appears now when i go to select which graphics card to use (i have an nvidia one and an intel built in and surprisingly the intel one is very useful in running somethings especially older games) i get a most annoying message telling me i do have not have the privileges to change the card from the right click menu as i normally could on windows 7. This brings up the Nvidia control panel but in it, the programs exe's are not changeable at all in terms of the card to use.
I do not at all understand this seemingly arbitrary restriction by microsoft on me simply choosing which one of my cards to use for which ever program i choose - i am the administrator of my own laptop and am signed in to my admin account
the only way i have been able to shut this restriction off is to change the local security policy setting to disable it. simply going to the UAC settings in the normal settings section does notthing to change it, i had to go into the local security policy.
Am i the only person to have encountered this annoying issue?
Now with the setting turned off though, i am unable to use some features of windows 10 it seems, such as hte feedback and even cortana i think is not working, telling me interests are not available, at other points too i get the message come up that i cannot do said activity from the built-in admin account, even though i am not in th ebuilt-in admin account, but i think changing the local security policy setting makes windows 10 think that i am
so, my query is whether there is a way that can have the local security policy settings back to normal, but without the stupid UAC thing blocking me from using the graphics card of my choosing. - ie can i just somehow switch off this part specifically, as there is really no need for it, and its not as though windows 10 cant handle me choosing which card to use, as it will allow me just fine with the local security polciy uac setting changed