Disabling UAC with Powershell

Question

I'm trying to disable UAC (i.e. set to the minimum level) using Powershell. So I'm running:

Set-ItemProperty -Path REGISTRY::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System -Name EnableLUA -Value 0

I've also tried this with -Force added on the end.

This code has the intended effect of setting UAC to minimum but also the undesired effect of preventing built-in Windows applications (including Edge) from running, returning an error that the application can't be run using the built-in administrator account (despite the fact that it's being run with a user account that simply has UAC disabled).

So if anyone has some insight as to why this is happening and how to resolve it, that would be ideal. Failing that, if there's an alternative Powershell command I can run to disable UAC then that could also be worth a shot.

Answer 1

Looks like this did the trick:

Set-ItemProperty -Path REGISTRY::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System -Name ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin -Value 0

Edge still running after reboot and annoying UAC prompts gone, so think that's a win.