Disable User Account Control(UAC) For Administrators Only
If you can't stand the User Account Control prompts, but you'd still like to retain a little bit of security, you can disable it for Administrator accounts only. What we'll be doing is actually changing Windows Vista to automatically elevate the privilege level for administrators without prompting.
Note: Disabling UAC will lead to a less secure system, so be warned.
The nice thing about doing it this way is that regular users as well as Internet Explorer still run as regular users, and would still use the normal security mechanisms.
Disable on Windows Vista Business or Ultimate
To configure this setting on Windows Vista Business and Ultimate, you can use the Local Security Policy configuration. Just type in secpol.msc into the Start menu search box and hit enter. Now browse down to Local Policies \ Security Options Find the following in the list: "User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode" and double-click on it. Change the setting to "Elevate without prompting". You should be all done. Disable for Windows Vista Home For Windows Vista Home users, the Local Security Policy doesn't come with the distribution, so you'll have to use the following registry file. Just unzip this registry file, double-click on it, and it will add into the registry. That's all there is to it.
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Rosie
My wife switched from Bell South to Indredimail and is highly dissatisfied…however, it's impossible to figure out how to disable so that she can have her Bell South account as her primary email!!! I wish I was a geek — can you help.
the disable UAC file for admin. (vista prem) worked great, you know your stuff. thanks
great info. awesome link. I think someone went a bit off topic in this link. I wish them luck.
When I dbl-clck on the extracted zip file all it does is ask what program to use to open it. What else do I need to do?
Used the reg patch for vista home and now I have a red shield warning in my task bar. How is running the patch differnt than just turning UAC off in security settings?
How do I get this stupid warning off?
Just go to windows security center from your control panel and click on the left where it says "Change the way security center alerts me" you then have the choice between:
Yes, notify me and display the icon
Don't notify me, but display the icon
Don't notify me and don't display the icon.
Just click the last option and wola no more annoying warning in your task bar. Hope this helps.
Vince. you are the man.
Vince, thanks alot for that tip. It helped quite a bit!
No more stupid pop-up everytime i start my computer
Vince you rock. That "Don't notify me and don't display the icon" fix stopped me from sceaming at my computer loud obscenities at 3am waking the household and neighborhood. Vista is new to me but im an old hat at microsoft.. I'm very close to installing *NIX after installing vista. its got a lot of fun features.. but overall im very unhappy. then again ive been unhappy with every micro* product since dos 6.22. Again.. THANKS!
So, there's no way to shut off the message just for the user control thing? Because I actually like the security center, for all it's other functions. But it becomes quite the pest as soon as you're not using default settings. Any way of just disabling that Windows Security Center is monitoring the UAC?
I also disabled it through Local Security Policy, however something I need to install requires it back. I went back into the LSP to activate UAC but it is greyed out and I can not activate it again.
Does anyone have any answers?
I use FireFox web browser and every time I go to surf the web I get the pop up (user Account control) Is there a way to let this access the web without the popup? I really don't want to turn the entire security system off. Why does IE web browser get the green light with out a popup?
Thanks,
its because firefox is enabled as 'Run as administrator' this is why it asks for your consent. to fix this go into firefox\properties\compatibility\.. and uncheck the box saying run as administrator hope that helped you.
"simon (lol im 14)"
Sorry it did not work.. Maybe it will work when your 15?
Burt
To disable uac easily just do this: start menu –> run –> msconfig, click on tools tab then scro.ll down to disable uac then click launch.
Chris –> If you do it that way, it will be disabled for other users as well, correct?
As a Vista Home user, I'm happy to have got rid of the annoyance of UAC. But I'm not convinced about the patch at the top of this page which is supposed to disable UAC for Administrators only. My non-admin user can now do things that would previously have had a UAC warning. I may as well have simply disabled it myself without this patch. Has anyone been truly able to get rid of UAC for Administrators ONLY on Vista Home??