UAC Popup for Network Changes in Windows 8

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Using my Windows 8 laptop, I use two accounts. One is a domain standard user which I logon to the laptop with and the other is an administrative account which I only ever use in a Run-As context.

Since moving to Windows 8 about four to five months ago, I am receiving regular UAC popups requesting that I enter my administrative credentials to make changes to the network configuration.

I am connected to a stable wireless connection, so it's not a case of the connection is dropping on and off and causing something in the stack to require a restart. If I enter my credentials and accept the prompt, nothing changes, the network location, network

type all remain the same and the pop-up reappears again.

It's about once every fifteen minutes or so that this happens, but I've never timed it for sure. I have another Windows 8 machine which is a desktop, connected to a physical infrastructure and I do not get any of these same popups on that machine, so I must

assume it's linked to something wireless.

Is there a log file somewhere that tracks network events that I can use to try and determine what is causing this or is anyone else experiencing the same problems?

Thanks

Richard

 

Richard Green MCSE Windows Server 2003, MCTS Desktop Virtualization

 

 

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