The game runs perfectly fine its just its this one thing that bugs me.

edit: It seems I double posted sorry.

go to Control Panel>User Accounts & change your user account control settings (put the slider down to the bottom)
is the easiest way.

But this is probably a better way.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-create-program-shortcut-run-without-uac-prompt-windows-7.htm

I've turned off the whole Universal Annoyance Central. Nothing I did would genuine reduce the level of popups for everything I did, so it was the only choice. Microsoft have somehow managed to make an OS with annoying popups every time you want to run anything, while also lowering security. It's quite a feat, it really is.

Having said that, I much prefer to have a proper firewall and anti-virus program running in the background, and their idiotic UAC off.

Had there been a way to turn it off permanently for any given program, it might actually have been useful. But no.

I wouldn't turn it off if I were you. I find this to be the one of the most useful things Microsoft added to Windows. Using an Admin account was the #1 reason of XP computers being infected with malware. This keeps user rights to a minimum unless specifically needed.

I, too, wonder why The Witched would need elevated rights, though.


Edit:

Looked around a bit and apparently it doesn't really need any special rights.

1. Go to the shortcut or executable you use to run The Witcher
2. Right click and select Properties
3. Go to Compatibility and uncheck Run As Administrator

The UAC prompt should not appear anymore.

I've had no problems running it this way.

Make a shortcut directly to the game's exe (ie. witcher.exe in "...\The Witcher Enhanced Edition Director's Cut\System\") and run the game from that. There's no prompt, and you get the bonus of avoiding the launcher altogether (less clicking to start the game).

Disabling UAC is a very bad idea. It's there for a reason, and disabling it is a security risk.

I'm not certain, but installing the game to a location OTHER than Program Files (like C:\Games, for example) might also remove some of the annoying pop-ups. The Program Files folder has special protections.

No, that makes no difference. While it is true that installing games in the primary drive's program folders can cause some annoyances (UAC virtualizing .ini files, etc.), it won't stop the Witcher launcher from prompting.

It's a non issue anyway. Like I said, just run the game directly from it's exe. I don't know why every game feels the need to have a launcher these days. OP clearly has an aversion to excessive prompting, so he'd probably be equally glad to avoid the launcher which ends up effectively being just another prompt to click through every time the game is launched.

But it's not the launcher, it's UAC, right? I'm looking at the screenshot that the OP attached. I ran The Witcher from the launcher, but I never got the message asking me if I wanted the following program to make changes. I thought perhaps this is because I installed the game in C:\Games rather than in Program Files. But maybe not.

Yeah, it's a UAC prompt.

I just checked in the properties of the Witcher's launcher, and for some reason it's privilege level had been automatically set to 'run as admin'. If you untick that, the prompt goes away. So I'm guessing that yours probably didn't configure itself that way if you're not getting the prompt.

The best and more secure way to make it, is to install the game out of the "program files" folder, then right click the executable, go to the compatibility tab and unselect the "launch as administrator" option.

Awesome, I'm glad you fixed the issue. Enjoy the game!