Is there an easy way of saying yes, I trust this program and I don't want the UAC warning without actually turning UAC off in Windows 7?

goddamn those were annoying, especially when playing a free game, the screen pops out suddenly and asks you in the middle of the game, i think you can find a solution on google, though i found one for vista back when im using it, i don't know if W7 is the same.

Oh no... they're still in there from Vista? I hate shit like that, Vista is so user hostile and clunky with affirmation and consent all over the place for every little crappy detail.

Become administrator or something like that. That's how you turned it off in Vista.

*EDIT: Ah, you don't want to turn it off completely... Hmmm, isn't there a box you can tick?

Not that I can see. I can make the shortcut always run as administrator (as if I right clicked -> run as Administrator), but it still darkens the screen and asks if I'd really like to run that program.

Administrator privileges won't do any good. The best you can do is, as administrator, run MSCONFIG and launch the Change UAC Settings tool to lower the security level. Remember that Windows 7 included the ability to not fully disable it, but to lower the security level of the UAC settings. Move the indicator to the "Notify me only when programs try o make changes to my computer". Any lower than this will result in the UAC disabled. But I don't see really much trouble as Windows 7 UAC notifications are way way less annoying than those present in Vista.

They are definately way less annoying when I had it on Vista (I turned UAC off in Vista after a few days) but I'm trying to keep it on in Windows 7.  I considered lowering it so much it wouldn't bitch about these two programs but then it's pretty much disabled at that point and what's the point of that?

I was hoping there was some way I could just make a white list but guess not.  :-/

You can't.

Also UAC has an exploit on Win7 that can be used to silently gain control of your PC, and Microsoft does not intend to fix it (it's a "feature" not a bug). This problem is not present on Vista.

It's not so silent.  You actually have to run the malicious executable still which requires action on the part of the user at some level.  The only difference between this and were UAC to be "fixed" would be that the malicious code would prompt for elevated access and, of course, the user would blindly click through it.

In general, if the user is dumb enough to run untrustworthy code in the first place then putting a UAC prompt isn't going to stop the user from screwing something up.