Maybe this has been posted/asked already and i did’nt find it…
But please, by the love of god, let me disable this message popup
I’m pretty aware of anything security related when running unity as administrator, so no need to remind me ever startup about this…
Any commandline/startup option or something ?
did not find anything in the alpha manual …
Running Unity as admin is completely unsupported… there are certain editor features that just don’t work when you run it as admin. Others do unexpected things/behave in a buggy way. We don’t test it in that configuration and we can’t really vouch for what it can do when run as admin.
We don’t have any mechanism to disable that popup, unless you’re running the editor in batch mode (but I imagine that’s not something you want to do).
May I ask why you’re running Unity as admin? How often are you starting the editor in administrator mode that causes you so much annoyance?
Maybe its important to add that i’m on windows. Besides that i’m pretty curious why things should not work when your user belongs to the administrator group ( again , talking about windows, dont care about MacOS, Linux or anything else )
I would certainly like to know what features might behave like you describe when running under a user that belongs to the administrator group. At least on windows you would have to do pretty awkward things to make it like that
This dialog is only present on Windows, so I am aware you’re on Windows. This dialog is not about running Unity when your user belongs to the administrator group. Administrator group users normally run applications non-elevated since Windows Vista & UAC was introduced in 2007. Because most Windows users belong to administrator group, before this existed, every program ran as administrator and it was not uncommon to accidentally brick your computer.
Running an application elevated (= as administrator) is equivalent of running an application via “sudo” on Linux or Mac. To run an application as administrator, one of three conditions have to be satisfied:
You can read about it here: How User Account Control works - Windows Security | Microsoft Learn
Regarding to what doesn’t properly work: over the last few years, we received quite a few bug reports about it. It ranges from slight behaviour differences (drag & drop behaves weirdly) to some features being completely non-functional (like speech recognition). This is because Windows API often behaves differently if you’re running the application as administrator and it is largely outside of our control. Applications aren’t meant to be run as administrator, so various edge cases pop up frequently. Unfortunately I don’t have an exhaustive list of things at my fingertips and we likely don’t even know about everything because we do not test Unity in this configuration.
Thanks for the detailed response, i understand now that the dialog is specific to the built-in administrator only
Anyways, in my whole time using Unity i never come across an issue that might be caused by or even linked to running unity elevated/as built-in admin. Or any one in your list.
But i understand that the dialog will not go away, as i’m the uncommon dog here as it seems
Regarding why i run my machine that way:
I constantly, always and since ever do things on my machines that potentially “brick the machine”, in fact that trains to not brick it and know exactly what one is doing. I constantly touch and bend “core” windows things to not have it get them in the way. But i see thats nothing for the broad masses. , so we can end this discussion
BTW: this is my 666’th post … coinsidence ?
Hi. I would very much like to know how not to run as Administrator, and get rid of the Popup. I’ve checked Settings in Hub and Unity and nono seems to be elevated but never the less i get the warning. I’m the only user on the PC and as such I am the admin, but i take it from the comments here that’s not an issue. Please advice.
Thanks Ole Jørgensen
I posted some troubleshooting steps here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-2022-2-is-now-available.1363123/#post-8655807
If they don’t work, can you add the “Elevated” column in the task manager and show the values of it for both Unity.exe and UnityHub.exe while this dialog is being displayed?
Hey!
I have a similar problem. Unity Hub is launched with elevated rights, but there is no check mark in the properties. I do not know what to do with it. In the pop-up window, the “Restart” button does not help to start the editor with normal user rights.
I’m not sure, but it seems to me that the first task is launched without elevated permissions, and the rest with elevated permissions.
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UPD:
I’m sorry I write so often. It looks like an installer bug. I decided to completely remove the Unity editor and Unity Hub and repeat the installation from 0. It looks like when you download the Unity Hub installer, run it with elevated rights to install Unity Hub, and at the end of the installation leave the daw active - run Unity Hub, then Unity Hub starts with elevated rights, and then the editor installation follows Unity and Visual Studio and much more.
When I removed this checkmark and launched Unity Hub after the installer had completely finished working, Unity Hub started without elevated rights, as it should be.
The problem has completely disappeared.
UPD 2:
I have also enabled UAC on level 2.
Does Unity Hub continue running as administrator if you reboot the machine?
I have UAC disabled on my account (I take the proper precautions with stuff I download online, don’t worry) and as a result I get this popup every time I launch Unity
there should be a way to just tell Unity that you accept the risk and make it go away as these kinds of situations make it impossible to run it without Administrator privileges without changing system settings and rebooting your machine
Seriously, don’t run end-user software as Administrator. Anyone doing it is just asking for problems, and anyone depending on it needs to rethink it.
And yet you downloaded Unity 
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Running Unity as Administrator is not supported. Period. Random things will break because we rely on running as standard user. We kept getting bug reports because people ran Unity as administrator and that broke functionality.
To be honest that is a rather unpolite and borderline unprofessional answer, and I’d ask you to please reconsider how you address people in the forums. On top of that, you need to realize that your viewpoint may be flawled, so refrain from shutting down people viewpoints like that.
Now Im suffering that senseless msgbox, and when I come to the forums to read about it, I found that:
WHAT? 
So in practical and professional terms, this is what I would expect:
To add to my perspective, I’d like to enumerate:
Yeap. I would like to clarify that UAC on Windows was disabled immediately after it was installed. And that leads to this annoying message. After enabling UAC - Unity Hub began to run without elevated permissions. It is noteworthy that further disabling UAC did not lead me to this annoying message. Magic.
Oh jeez that did the trick! Thanks a ton for sharing. As you mentioned, I just enabled UAC, restarted, ran Unity, then disabled back UAC and the pestering message is gone. All we needed! As usual, the community to the rescue 
Edit:
It is also worth noting that the result of that is that Unity no longer runs as elevated, and thus the message is no longer displayed. This is a solution for those devs with UAC disabled, but some devs actually required to run Unity as administrator (I’ve read some devkits require that) will still struggle with the senseless situation.
I’m glad you guys found a solution.
No target platforms Unity supports require you to run the editor as administrator.
Hello,
I am not sure where to ask, but here seems the right-ish place.
Since updating to 2022.2, our automated builds (which run not in batch mode, for lightmapping reasons), no longer execute. Unity simply hangs when being run from the command line.
I cant seem to figure out why unity might be trying to run elevated. The user account is not admin, Jenkins is not elevated, and we dont have any “run as administrator” box ticked. This is a really big issue for us at the moment.
Any help sorting this out would be amazing.
Thanks
Are you sure it’s the administrator pop up and not something else? If it is, perhaps Jenkins is running as a service instead of a user mode application?
In either case, you should use the “-automated” command line argument to suppress any kind of user prompts from the editor.
Thanks so much for the speedy reply!
You are correct, jenkins is running as a service.
I have never seen -automated and can’t find it documented anywhere in the unity docs.
This did however, solve the issue, so thank you very much!
I am not 100% sure its the administrator pop up, Unity just straight up hangs when being launched. Nothing is logged, and it sits there spinning for forever. This is new since 2022.2. It’s pretty hard to diagnose exactly what the issue might be.
That said, problem solved haha
Thanks
