Solution to Battle.net Launcher giving UAC prompts

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I saw someone had started a topic previously and it seems that the installation is creating a shortcut for another version of a launcher that outputs the UAC request.

Go to this folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Battle.net

Create a shortcut for the executable with the name “Battle.net.exe”. So not the ‘Launcher’ variant you will not get the prompt anymore.

If your start menu search launcher is asking for UAC as well. Go here and copy a shortcut to the previously mentioned executable: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Battle.net

Hopefully if someone stumbles upon the same issue the google gods can direct you here.

Enjoy! :slight_smile:

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The gods did lead me here. But that didn’t work for me. :frowning_face: I’ve tried setting all the permission of each file to ‘Run as Administrator’ and still no luck.