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Post by The Jackal on Mar 2, 2018 12:20:47 GMT -8
As you might know, Microsoft removed the "classic" UAC prompt in a Windows 10 update. My question is thus: Is it possible to restore the old one from say, Vista/7/8/8.1 and somehow drop it to W10 to bring it back?
I've searched online and found nothing and going over my own VM installs of 7 and Vista has netted nothing of worth. Is it stored in something like shell32, and thus unreplaceable? Any insight would be most helpful. Thanks!
EDIT: I found out myself - it's consent.exe. Tried replacing it with the one from 7 and nope, got errors instead. Had to boot into safe mode and replace it back. Would the one from a copy of W8.1 work?
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Post by R.O.B. on Mar 2, 2018 20:24:52 GMT -8
How about consent.exe from an older version of Windows 10? I haven't really tried myself, but I think that might be our best bet.
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Post by Splitwirez on Mar 3, 2018 2:48:30 GMT -8
How about consent.exe from an older version of Windows 10? I haven't really tried myself, but I think that might be our best bet. seeY, especially the last Insider Build before they added the new prompts.
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Post by The Jackal on Mar 4, 2018 15:30:44 GMT -8
Welp, it took a while, had to install two different W10 virtual installs, but I got the files needed and tested it- and: no go. UI remained the same. The only thing that changed was I had an "alert" sound to go along with the UAC prompt, and that didn't play when I replaced the files with the ones from the earlier version of W10. Basically, replacing the files didn't do anything. I didn't even get errors with it (beside the sound not playing on the UAC prompt). The GUI must be stored elsewhere. I've uploaded the files here, so in case anyone wants to do this, grab 'em here: drive.google.com/open?id=1T0RSBucMI7H4GaemCtEM3Y9JJ-j5Vs2p
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