If you get the Access denied dialog, click the Continue button. When you double-click on a program shortcut which has the shield icon on it, you will get the User Account Control screen (unless you have disabled the UAC) where you need to click the Yes button to run the program with admin rights. In other words, it will always run as administrator. The yellow and blue shield icon indicates that the program will always require administrator rights to run. What’s the shield icon on program shortcuts? As you can see in the picture below, the yellow and blue shield icon shows up on the lower right area of some program shortcuts. Program shortcuts usually have a shortcut icon over them to indicate that they are, well, shortcuts.Īs you might have observed, some programs create desktop shortcuts with a shield icon on them. While some programs offer an option to install programs without creating the desktop shortcut, some not.

With the default installation settings, most of the classic desktop programs create their shortcut icons on the desktop upon installing them. RECOMMENDED: Download PC Repair tool to quickly find and fix Windows errors automatically

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