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May 28, 2008
One of my biggest pet peeves about Vista is that it asks you for permission to do just about everything. I don’t really need to be notified that I’m about to execute a file and ask if it’s OK to continue. Of course it’s OK to continue, I’m the one that told it to in the first place!!!
I understand that this is a security issue if you don’t have permission to run certain things, however, does it have to be so annoying? Why couldn’t there be a ‘if you don’t want to be notified again, click here’ option that only admins can access???
Anyway, if you are just as annoyed by the ‘User Account Control’ (thats what causes all the security confirmations) as I am, you are in luck, here’s how to disable it.
Method 1:
Click on the ‘Vista’ icon in the bottom left corner of the screen. When the start menu pops up, click Control Panel.
Once the control panel opens, click the User Accounts button.
When the User Accounts window appears, click on User Accounts (yes again!, thanks Vista).
Now that you are finally in the User Accounts menu, click Turn User Account Control on or off located at the bottom of the page.
At this point you will be prompted with a confirmation dialog (imagine that!). Make sure to uncheck the check box to turn off the User Account Control. Then, click OK
You will need to restart for the changes to take effect.
Method 2:
Start by clicking on the ‘Vista’ icon in the lower left corner. Now, search for ‘msconfig’ and then click on the program at the top of the start menu.
Once the System Configuration window is open, click the Tools tab and then scroll down until you see ‘Disable UAC‘. Make sure to click on this line as shown in the picture. Then, click Launch to execute the command.
Once the command is finished you will see a command prompt pop up and tell you the operation was completed successfully. At this point you can close the command prompt and then click OK to close the System Configuration window.
You will need to restart for the changes to take effect.
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