You tap Install. Windows dims the screen and asks for permission. On most remote desktop tools that is where the session quietly dies — the picture is still live, but every click and keystroke lands nowhere, and the only fix is walking over to the PC. Remio keeps control through elevated windows, with nothing to configure.
Windows runs elevated windows and the UAC prompt at a higher integrity level than a normal app. Anything sending synthetic mouse and keyboard events from below that level gets filtered out — by design, so malware cannot click Yes on a permission prompt for you.
The stream stays perfectly live — you can see the prompt, the installer, the Task Manager window. But clicks do nothing, typing does nothing, and there is no error message. It reads like a frozen app or a bad connection when it is neither.
UAC prompts render on a separate secure desktop, and elevated windows run at high integrity. Input injected by a normal-privilege process never reaches them. This is a deliberate Windows security boundary, not a bug in the remote tool.
Remio's Windows host sends your input at a level Windows accepts for elevated windows, so the installer, the UAC dialog and Task Manager all respond normally. There is no setting to turn on and no elevation request for someone at the PC to approve.
This is a well-documented pain point across the category. The workarounds exist, but each one adds a step, an account, or a person who has to be sitting at the remote machine.
Its own documentation routes you to connecting with Windows Authentication and enabling Windows logon in Advanced settings before you can drive UAC. That means supplying Windows account credentials for the remote machine, on top of the TeamViewer session itself.
Installed, it can interact with elevated windows. Run portable, it cannot — the screen blanks with a crossed-out cursor and input stops. Otherwise you use Request elevation, which needs a human at the remote desk to accept the prompt.
Works out of the box on the Windows host, on every edition including Home. No Windows Authentication, no elevation request, nobody at the far end. Free, with no tier that gates it.
Elevated windows are not an edge case — they show up in the most common reasons people connect to a machine remotely in the first place.
Every installer worth running triggers UAC. Without pass-through you get one prompt into the process and then a session you can see but not touch.
The tool you reach for when something has hung runs elevated. Losing input exactly when a process needs killing is the worst possible timing.
Services, registry edits, driver installs, elevated PowerShell — the whole administrative surface stays reachable from a phone or tablet.
Installers, Task Manager, UAC prompts, elevated PowerShell — your mouse and keyboard keep working. Free, no account, no card.
Free foreverNo accountWindows 10 & 11, Home included