User Account Control in Windows Vista

January 5, 2009 | Windows | 0 comments

Are you running Windows Vista? Does your screen constantly ask you if you ‘really’ want to do things because they may pose a security risk?

What you have there is called ‘User Account Control’ and not only does it interfere with the more seasoned users’ ‘Windows Experience’ but it will make the lower end computer slow to a crawl.

Are you sure you Reeeeeealy want to do that?

Are you sure you Reeeeeealy want to do that?

It’s incredibly easy to turn off and I was going to write a step by step as a how to but obviously someone else got there first! They detail four ways to do it:

  • MSCONFIG
  • Registry Editor
  • Group Policy (gpedit)
  • Control Panel

I used option 4, the control panel method. This is more preferable for me because I prefer for Windows to adjust it’s own behind the scenes files and even more of an obvious option if they provide a nice interface to do it with!

The site is: http://www.petri.co.il however I have copied option 4 in to make it easier for you:

  • Open Control Panel
  • Click on one of the user accounts
  • Click on the “Go to the main User Account page” link
  • Click on the “Change security settings” link
  • Under “Turn on User Account Control (UAC) to make your computer more secure” click to unselect the “Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer” and press OK
  • You will be prompted to reboot your computer and once restarted it will no longer bother you

You can reverse the procedure by just re-checking the box and restarting again. I feel I should add that even though you have turned UAC itself off, you will not have turned off another small annoyance in the security bubble thing in the system tray. A small price to pay for a less irritating and slightly faster user experience.

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