When I press the desktop shortcut to open MSFS2020 I get the below message.

 "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device" in MSFS 2020?

Is it safe to disable this and how?

 

Stelios

Why wouldn’t it be safe to allow changes?

it’s a product that’s published by Microsoft, not some 3rd party scenery/aircraft developer that is from the back and beyond that includes malware.

Considering it has a updater built into the product, I’m guessing it needs permissions for for that, but could be wrong.

Edited December 4, 20205 yr by flightskyc

Good old Microsoft's User Account Control interfering with even programs from it's own company! I've had that a couple of times with MSFS too. No way to disable it without disabling UAC. In principle, it's good safeguard to have in Windows, but it has no ability to remember your reply to prevent it nagging you about something you know is safe time after time after time...🙄

Can you disable just for MSFS 2020?

109 is right. It’s the UAC. I can’t find any way to whitelist programs that trigger this alert. 

I’ve considered turning it off and trusting the hyper-aggressive security features of the latest Windows. It is annoying to have to get nagged ever single time I start a program.

Why doesn't it do it when I open Word or Excel ?

24 minutes ago, Stelios said:

Why doesn't it do it when I open Word or Excel ?

It's a good question, and only Microsoft can answer that one for certain. UAC is supposed to warn of a potentially malicious program which may "make changes to your system". Now, Word probably is fairly secure as Office programs go, but Excel could certainly contain malicious code, so you'd think UAC would prompt you every time. But I suppose MS don't want their users thinking all their programs are vulnerable to hidden exploits, so they disable UAC from popping up for them. 🙄

Prior to Windows 10, I u

15 hours ago, Stelios said:

Can you disable just for MSFS 2020?

And no, you can't, unfortunately - it's on or off for everything.🙄

Edited December 5, 20205 yr by 109Sqn

So Microsoft do something......

I have two shortcuts to bootup MSFS: one is a 'run as administrator' shortcut and the other one is not.

The first requires me to click for to allow changes. But the second shortcut does not because it is not a run as administer shortcut.

6 hours ago, 109Sqn said:

Prior to Windows 10, I u

 

Didn't realise I'd deleted part of that post. It should have said "Prior to Windows 10, I disabled UAC because I actually know what I'm doing when I start a program, however it's actually less intrusive than it used to be , but equally I feel there are more threats to a PC's safe operation nowadays, so I put up with it now"

UAC confirmation is required when an application needs administrative rights. That could be the case if a programm tries to access and or modify system files (I can also be wrong here).

I have UAC disabled but those messages still pop-up. Windows XP was much better there.

1 hour ago, Fielder said:

I have two shortcuts to bootup MSFS: one is a 'run as administrator' shortcut and the other one is not.

The first requires me to click for to allow changes. But the second shortcut does not because it is not a run as administer shortcut.

Why dont you have just one tho? (run as admin one) 

10 hours ago, leprechaunlive said:

Why dont you have just one tho? (run as admin one) 

A bug was that the marketplace sometimes does not work (greyed out) if you run MSFS as administrator. Running not as administrator cured problem.

This problem and solution was in this forum here a lot way back in September, so maybe it's not an issue any more.

All of a sudden it doesn't ask me "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device" 

and I haven't changed any settings.....