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This is UAC (User Account Control) which is trying to restrict some potentially dangerous actions which could harm your data. <br />
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An ordinary user has restricted rights and VS 2012 is attempting to write to location where ordinary user has r/o access etc. so you have to provide admin credentials to confirm that you are familiar with this action.<br />
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UAC is possible to swith off in Control Panel or you may change the severity level of messages.
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This is UAC (User Account Control) which is trying to restrict some potentially dangerous actions which could harm your data.

An ordinary user has restricted rights and VS 2012 is attempting to write to location where ordinary user has r/o access etc. so you have to provide admin credentials to confirm that you are familiar with this action.

UAC is possible to swith off in Control Panel or you may change the severity level of messages.

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Well I loaded other versions of Visual studio and did not get prompted with an UAC dialog to start the visual studio ide.
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Well I loaded other versions of Visual studio and did not get prompted with an UAC dialog to start the visual studio ide.

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That's what microsoft indicated.
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Running Visual Studio 2012 using a standard User Id I receive the prompt :<br />
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<b>Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?<br />
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So it prompts me for an admin password.<br />
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Why is this happening?
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Running Visual Studio 2012 using a standard User Id I receive the prompt :

Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?

So it prompts me for an admin password.

Why is this happening?

Running Visual Studio 2012 under a standard user

Microsoft applications include a variety of software programs, including development and digital authoring programs (Expression and Media Center), educational programs, Internet software, including Essentials, Skype and the Live family, anti-virus, productivity applications and suites like Office, Excel, Word, Outlook, Access and PowerPoint, video games and server applications such as Exchange, SharePoint, IIS and Virtual Server.