Task Manager Prompting for Credentials on Windows 10

Question

_{Thursday, April 25, 2019 3:38 PM}

I have a work computer, joined to a work domain on Windows 10 and it is prompting standard users to enter their passwords when launching task manager. Our environment is primarily Windows 7 and we are actively in the process of testing Windows 10 and implementing it company-wide once the testing has been completed. Our Windows 7 users do not get asked for their credentials, I have gone into gpedit.msc and enabled/disabled a few of the suggested culprits online and that doesn't seem to make any difference. The only way that the user isn't asked for credentials is to be an admin. The UAC levels don't matter, a standard user is prompted at the lowest and highest levels.

Any assistance on this would be greatly appreciated, the testing is supposed to be completed by the 1st of next month.

All replies (5)

_{Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:28 PM}

if you run Windows 10 without Admin Rights the UAC will ask for "admin Tasks"

Klaus

_{Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:59 PM | 1 vote}

I'm looking for a way to open Task manager as a standard user. Please reply with if it is possible and/or how I would go about doing it.

It seems unlikely that windows would make it so that a standard user wouldn't be allowed to close a program that is not responding, so I don't see how this isn't possible to turn off. 

As I mentioned, Standard User Credentials work to open task manager. It is not asking for Admin credentials. I just want it to not ask at all since the user already had to enter their password to sign into the computer.

_{Friday, April 26, 2019 2:23 AM}

On my Windows 10 machine, a standard user can open task manager without any prompt, the UAC level is the highest.

Check your GPOs configurations:

Computer configuration -> Policies -> windows settings -> security settings -> local policies -> user rights assignment -> load and unload device drivers.

If this is set to a group the limited user is a member of (everyone, domain users, etc) then the prompt is displayed. if you set it instead to Administrators, the prompt is suppressed and everything works fine

Source:

Windows 10, Task Manager triggers UAC?

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7j3qjy/windows_10_task_manager_triggers_uac/dr4nvoe/

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_{Monday, April 29, 2019 9:55 AM}

Would you mind letting me know the update of the problem? If you need further assistance, feel free to let me know.

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_{Thursday, May 2, 2019 2:35 PM}

This problem is old.

It happens for any non-admin user that is a member of a privileged group. For example "network configuration operators". To verify, open a command prompt and launch

whoami /groups

Now see if there are any local groups that are privileged listed.