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What is the Blue and Gold Shield on Windows 7

I have several Desktop icons and a few things in Windows Explorer that have a Blue and Gold shield on them. My understanding is that it signifies you need to run it as an administrator.

This one computer I am currently setting up I created a user "Admin" and added him to the group administrators but when installing software some of the desktop icons still show the blue and gold shield.

My understanding of the blue and gold shield must need updating. What exactly does that signify?

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I found another, very interesting, thread about these shields. It was as I initially thought. That you need elevated privileges to run it. The shield doesn't really take in to account what privileges you have. It was a very interesting thread especially when someone asked how to remove it.

This whole thread on this shield and how to remove it pretty much came down to it being another poor attempt by Microsoft to try and be cute and not supply a lot of detail on what it really means. In my cause all I had to do to get rid of the shield was turn UAC all the way up and then turn it all the way off. At that point the shield went away.