15 R3, KB4517211 breaks Alienware Sound Center (A-Volute)

Same here:  disabling ASC at startup via Task Manager, or changing ASC properties to "run as admin, " eliminated UAC prompt upon login.  

Hopefully a new version of ASC will be released soon.  Can ASC be acquired separately from the Realtek driver?

If you check, I think that you will find this simply stops the program from running.

Just changing the properties of the executable to Run as Admin causes a Windows exception and prevents the executable from launching. The correct long-term solution is to, 1) remove the Windows startup request and 2) define an entry in the Task Scheduler that is triggered by Any User Login. Do not forget to edit the properties of the entry to include the /noUI parameter. The easiest way to remove the Windows startup request is using CCleaner. Just go to the startup tab and disable/delete the Nahimic entry. The utility UACPass will define the basic Task Scheduler entry for you. Once it is done, launch task scheduler, change the target system to Windows 10, add the Any User Login trigger and add the /noUI parameter to the run definition.

Yes, both methods simply stop ASC from running.  After the referenced Windows update is applied, the UAC prompt still appears whenever ASC is started.   Hopefully a new version of ASC will be released soon.  

The simplest workaround is to disable ASC from running at startup via Task Manager.

How do you do that? Please respond this popup is irritating. 

Task Manager/Startup/right-click on AWSoundCenter and select "Disable."

Hey everyone, I had the same problem too and it seems like I really need to wait for an update to fix my problem, but I wanted to know if it was exactly the same for you guys. AW Sound Center would also ask for permission when turning on my laptop and managed to fix that with the task manager, but I also get not one, but 4 notifications asking for permission every time I want to change my audio devices, I change them pretty often from monitor to headphones and vice-versa, and every time I do that, I get those pesky admin permission notifications all at once. I've tried giving administrator permissions to the AW Command Center, and even other executables in the folder to make sure, but it does not work. Obviously, I believe that turning the UAC off will get rid of these, but I am scared of not having the notifications for when I really need them.

Kudos? Really? It took MONTHS during which they nagged me constantly to close the bug report with no fix available. During those months they repeatedly changed who they said was "at fault", and never could explain why the Sound Center is even there. I disabled it and never noticed any difference, so what is it for and why was it only that tool which produced dozens of annoying popups. If Realtek was the problem, no other software triggered the problem.

"Finally" is the word which comes to my mind, not "Kudos".

The issue did take some months to fix, but since the issue was minor and the workaround was easy, I had largely forgotten about the issue.  I was quite pleased that the issue was finally fixed out of the blue!  Perhaps I went a little overboard in offering "kudos"! 

But I understand the frustration when having to deal with tech support.  I didn't because my contract has expired. 

Great,but it doesn't work.  I get;

Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure !!
[Error Code" -0001]

No driver supported in this driver package.

Whatever the update did it just froze my Alienware 13. I had been just denying the pop up or exiting multiple times. After the auto update from Alienware I denied the pop up again and exited and now my laptop has been unresponsive for hours and the power button doesn’t work. I think it’s fried.

Well after just letting the battery run dry after a few hours I was able to turn it back on. Seems to be ok, yah I changed it so it the Alienware audio center doesn't turn on at startup.

Hello there,

Extract the "Realtek-Audio-Driver_V2G7G_WIN_6.0.8816.1_A09.EXE" manually and

then go to " RealtekHDAudio -> Nahimic " from the extracted folder

try reinstalling " AWSoundCenter " alone and then reboot your system.

this helped me to get rid of that admin permission request Why don't you give it a try.

This helped a lot, thanks.

For others (if the run as administrator isn't working) you will have to end the current iteration of AW sound center from task manager for this to take effect.