If you can, drop anything to do with Windows UAC please.

[Masterfrog]

I've been having huge issues with VLC over the last months, to the point of where I couldn't even use it. Turns out it's all because I disabled my UAC notifications and VLC substitutes this with some age-old looking admin-login window that refuses to work. Please, if it's anything on the VLC end (which I can't see how it can't be since I've only had problems with VLC) just remove any interactions with UAC from the software. UAC is simply incredibly intrusive and offensive. That I have to have it enabled to use VLC is probably more than I can stand.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I don't even understand what you try to do.
Run VLC?

[Masterfrog]

Literally anything. Playing any media file, running VLC, trying to install a fresh version of VLC. It doesn't really matter what you do, as long as you are a Windows 7 user (don't know about Vista) and have disabled UAC notifications (which any sane person will do), the software starts acting up. It's as if VLC itself tries to force a UAC pop-up, but since it's disabled you instead get the old-styled windows Admin logon windows that I mentioned before, and that window doesn't work correctly, meaning I can't use the software as long as UAC notifications is disabled. The reason I think this has something to do with VLC is because it's the only software out of a big bunch that I use that has any sort of problem with this. Everything else works just fine with UAC disabled.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Once installed. VLC doesn't need UAC.

And if you don't want UAC at all, just use the .zip version of vlc.

[BGB]

Once installed. VLC doesn't need UAC.

And if you don't want UAC at all, just use the .zip version of vlc.

I am sorry but it does on my new install of Windows 7 x64. the latest version, set up file associations and then bang, every time I run it the UAC window pops up, makes it impossible to use.
Barry