Windows 7 uac screenshot

Screenshots are great way to visually share information with other people. Yes you can even record Videos to share information visually on computers, but Screenshots are much easier to create, view and manage.

Save Screenshot as a File in Windows 7. It also prevents you from clicking on anything other than the UAC prompt. This is the same thing that happens on the Windows login screen, and when you press Ctrl-Alt-Delete. The Microsoft User Account Control blog has a pretty good explanation of the process. Microsoft designed Secure Desktop mode to prevent malicious code from spoofing what's shown on the screen and thereby trick the user into installing malware or revealing sensitive information--like their user name and password.

Unfortunately, it's also prevents us from taking our UAC screenshot. What's the answer? As it turns out, there are a handful ways to get around the UAC's locked desktop. Here they are in order of my preference.

While UAC can be a real annoyance, at least it's configurable. And, you can prevent UAC from switching to the secure desktop when the prompt appears. As neither the Group Policy Editor nor its Local Security counterpart is available in Windows Vista Home, those running this OS will need to modify the machine's local security policy through a quick registry edit.

Secure Desktop makes it impossible for other applications to interact with UAC windows for security reasons. Despite what is said above, you can take screenshots of secure UAC prompts with WinSnap by using the following workaround.

The above steps will disable the Secure Desktop mode, and UAC prompts will be shown on the default desktop after that. However, there is one more glitch we should fix first. Michael Madsen Michael Madsen Kate Gregory Kate Gregory A step by step Guide Step 1.

Click on 'yes' when the UAC ask for permission. Harun Or Rashid Md. Harun Or Rashid 1, 3 3 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges. Alternative to Michael Goldshteyns answer You can more quickly achieve the same by copying the first registry command below and pasting it into an elevated command prompt , then hit enter. Arete Arete 3 3 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. It just works! Did you launch Snipping tool after UAC is shown?

It works for me this way — otterb. It worked for me for one dialog that tried hard to pretend to be like UAC like disabling screenshot etc. Sorry for the confusion! Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.

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