Question Unity says it is opening with administrator privileges, but nothing seems to be causing this

Every time I open Unity, I get a pop-up saying that Unity is running as administrator and that this is a bad thing. I tried to fix this, but I cannot. Unity Hub does not ask for administrator privileges when opening. I was hoping for help on preventing Unity from opening as an administrator as I do not know what else to try.


There is a button which says to "Restart Unity as a standard user" which does nothing.



Neither the Unity Editor nor the Unity Hub have "Run this program as an administrator" selected.

 

1. How do you open your projects? Via the hub or with a shortcut or something else?
2. Running as admin won't break anything afaik, just don't use huge c# files from online since those would have admin perms if ran within Unity

 

This was exactly the problem; changing this fixed my issue, thank you very much!

 

I've had that problem before

If uac Didn't work With You it

Maybe the reason is in the windows

First check your Account Type adminstrator or standard

 

Changing the UAC settings to "Always notify" didn't work for me. My account type is administrator

 

It says yes on the elevated column of unity.exe on my system. What does it mean and how can i fix this?

 

You changed UAC settings and now hub no longer popups up that you're launching in admin?

 

And if the editor is launched from an admin account?

 

Ok then this is strange it would launch as admin and not do anything if I press the button on the left (restart as standard user). What's the solution?

 

Yes it does. There are 6 Unity Hub.exes working on my task manager, 3 of them say yes, 3 of them no. Unity.exe says yes. I shared a ss of my task manager. I use Turkish windows but the far right column is Elevated. "Evet" means yes, "Hayır" means no. It never asks me to elevate

 

Sry for the inconvenience. Is there a way to switch windows to english after it's installed. I didn't choose to install windows in Turkish, the computer store i bought the computer installed it that way. Anyway i share the the ss

 

explorer.exe, RuntimeBroker.exe is elevated, dwm is not. backgroundtaskhost.exe is not listed

 

It should be in the Settings/Time & Language (IDK the Turkish phrase for it). Add English to the list and move it to the top if it isn't there and also you can choose it above so the Windows itself is in English. (BTW, this is a Windows 10 screenshot).

 

Thx. I use Win10 too

 

How am i supposed to figure it out? What may be causing this?

 

no

 

This is a brand new computer and windows was clean installed a week ago. I can think of one thing that can do this. A few days after i first opened my computer, i started to see the activate your windows watermark on the bottom right side of my screen. Then i looked for ways get rid of it and find this method shown in the video: <SNIP>

Maybe this has something to do with the issue

 

The only recommended way to get rid of the reminder is to buy/have a valid, proper and legal license and use it to activate your windows properly.
Reminder: It is against the forum rules to post any kind of piracy methods or propagate their use. Since I do not speak Turkish I'm not 100% sure this is what happening in this video but I reported it and will leave the investigation to the moderators.

 

No, that is your reccomendation which i didn't ask for. It is not your business to do police work on the forums on who used what kind of software. I gave this reply to Tautvydas-Zilys for the purpose of troubleshooting the issue i am having. So this is not a dialogue between you and me, you are just interluding. Also you don't know for certain that the video is about piracy. It only shows a way to remove the windows activation watermark, it doens't show how to crack windows. Again reporting the video was completely unneccesary and act of meddlesomeness which i clearly see you have a habit of. Please do not reply or interlude on any of my comments from now on

 

It's an open forum, I reply wherever I see fit. You're free to put me on the ignore list if my replies hurt your ego.

It is the job of all of us, that's why it is explicitly encouraged to report posts which potentially break forum rules. It is your duty too.
You probably should read the code of conduct of the forums. I urge you to check out the point 1e and the "We encourage" section.

And here is the link to the Code of Conduct post: https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-community-code-of-conduct.743180/

 

No, your replies didn't hurt my ego, my ego isn't that fragile and you give too much credit to yourself. You can't hurt my ego, don't worry about it. It is true however that i find your reply annoying because it was very unnecessary and also obstructive. They ask me questions to troubleshoot an issue and i honestly reply to those questions to find what the problem is , then you jump in out of nowhere and give me lectures about buying a Windows license as if you work for Microsoft. This topic isn't about that. I respect the forum rules and the people here but i'm not gonna report anyone or give them lectures about pirated software. Ppl who use them know the risks and have their own reasons to use them, it's not for me to judge them. I did nothing to encourage the use of pirated software, i just want to help myself and the community to find out what causes the bug which this topic in opened for

 

Yeah tell me about it. I can't even open windows now. I tried entering this code: "net administrator /active:no" on cmd to deactivate the admin mode thinking that it might work. Now it asks for a password on windows login screen and i haven't set any password. I can't open the windows in safe mode either. F8 key doesn't work. I think i need to create a Windows 10 bootable usb and repair or reinstall windows hopefully without formatting the disk. As you say, this is not the subject of this forum. Thanks for your support so far anyway

 

I clean installed the Windows, the warning is gone. Applications no longer run in elevated mode. I appreciate your help again. If you hadn't warned me, i could get into a serious trouble. I also apologize for my previous harsh comments

 

I already had this problem with modified windows, I'm using windows ghost spectre it already comes by default to open the programs as an administrator (UAC is disabled), in it you have to enable UAC with ghost tools. User Account Control Settings only works if you enable UAC in Ghost Tools because it is internally disabled.

 

Hello, I would like to add to this thread.
I bought a new NVMe SSD disk driver today, and installed Windows 10 from this link using a USB driver. Mind you that this is a legitimate windows installation from Microsoft (I had bought this PC with a legitimate WIndows 8 version a few years ago, therefore Windows was licensed upon reinstalling).
After installing this version I used Windows Updates to update my PC all the way to the newest WIndows 11 version.
When the updates were finished, I downloaded Unity 2022.3.8f1 to run a project I am working on, and got this message:


I will add and say that when trying to download anything to my C drive I get a similar message (for instance this is the message that pops up when I try downloading something from Google Chrome to anywhere on my C drive:



The reason I am referencing this forum reply is that I reached this thread from another thread, saying the problem is fixed in here, and noticed you mentioned "EnableLUA".
To try and fix the problem and be able to download items to my C drive, I followed this suggestion (to change EnableLUA to 0, solution 1 did not work for me, only solution 2) by an independent advisor which worked great! I was able to download items to my C drive with no problem.

Now I am in a conundrum; on the one hand I can't open unity at all with EnableLUA set to 1 and on the other hand I am severely open to risks when placing EnableLUA to 0.

Currently I chose leaving EnableLUA to 0 to ensure my PC's safety, but that means I can't download items to my C drive nor open any Unity projects... Also, my UAC level is set to 4 (max, enabled).

How should I fix it? what can I do? Any suggestion on what may be the issue?

Thanks ahead.