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So this was an issue I ran into a while back and suddenly it has re-appeared. Not sure if its because of a newer build of windows or what but here goes.

In my unattended file, i have the following line that disables UAC,

<EnableLUA>false</EnableLUA>

I need it disabled for a number of reasons, one of which is that UAC will stop a lot of automated scripts i run after a windows install.

The issue that has re-appeared is that when UAC is disabled this way, it breaks OneDrive where the right-click context menu no longer appears. If i re-enable UAC via the normal way in windows, reboot, they come back. I can then disable UAC the normal way again and all is well. So it seems like this above way of disabling UAC just breaks OneDrive for some reason.

I need a way to disable UAC during windows install or shortly after even that doesnt break onedrive.

Richard Chase
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You may need to tinker with this to get it to work properly, but it sounds like you might need to make changes to the user account control policies. You should be able to do this at the sysprep stage

Specifically, you might find "Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode" toggle will help.

  1. Run secpol.msc to open the Local Security Policy.

  2. Expand Local Policies, then open the Security Options.

  3. Look for the policies regarding the User Account Control

security policies

I would save out an image of your machine before making any changes, then revert back to your saved image to make further changes until you find the correct settings that allow OneDrive to run with UAC disabled.

You can find more source material for this issue here.

Mastaxx
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