How to disable UAC
Thu, 02/22/2007 - 10:37 — Ciprian
UAC or User Access Control is a new feature of Windows Vista that is meant to enhance the security of your system. Each time an application is installed or whenever an important system change is made by the user or by a running process, the screen is blacked out and temporarily disabled and a dialog is shown with the choices to allow or deny the action.
If the logged user is not an administrator, Windows Vista will also ask for the administrator password. While this helps keeping your system safer from threats, it can also be very annoying and sometimes confusing.
In this guide we will show you how to disable this feature of Windows Vista. Before we start, we must remind you that disabling UAC is not recommended by Microsoft because it can expose you to a lot more security threats. If you still choose to disable it please make sure you have proper security in place for your system.
To disable the UAC, enter the Control Panel and type UAC in the search box.
The first result returned by the search will be User Accounts – Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off.
Click on it and the UAC window will open. Deselect the option Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer and press the OK button.
Windows Vista will ask you to restart your computer. After the restart, UAC will be disabled and all the confirmation requests will no longer bug you.
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Comments
Removing UAC
i just downloaded Ares ultra
and it doesnt give me any results after i type in my search
i heard that UAC was the problem do you think by me removing UAC will help let file sharing programs work on my computer.
Administrator?
When I try to turn my UAC off, it asks me for the administrator password. The problem is, my personal account isn't the administrator account, and I don't know the password to the administrator account. Any ideas?
UAC
I agree with 'Biscuit'. UAC is a terrible idea for the average computer user, or even the above average. I'm not even sure its a good idea for professional network administrators. Dump it and get over it guys.
Password pop up....
okay it says "Click on it and the UAC window will open. Deselect the option Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer and press the OK button" when i click "Turn User Account Cotrol (UAC) on or off" instead of the deselect botton poping up the password thing pops up. how do i get rid of the password????
UAC
What the Benifits of UAC when the (UAC) use User Account Controller are enable but then, you do not disabled again for installing another program that you want to installed...Can you help me regarding my problem. I want to disabled the ( UAC ).. what should I do?.
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