Azure 1.7, Visual Studio and UAC prompts - visual-studio-2010

Running Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 on Win7 x64. I just installed the latest Azure SDK and upgraded a web role. When I enter the debugger from Visual Studio, I need to click through two UAC prompts before the site appears. I believe these are for the compute and storage emulators. How do I prevent this from happening? I already run Visual Studio as an administrator.

On my development machines I tend to disable UAC completely:
Control Panel
User Accounts
User Accounts (again)
Change User Account Control settings
Drag the slider to the bottom: Never notify

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