Vista - User Account Control (UAC) - Elevate Privilege Level

i just tried to follow this tutorial but when i try to launch secpol.msc i get an error message that says An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist..... any ideas?

Hello Ripbox,

Are you doing this from within an administrator account?

If you are, then from what I have read on this error, it may be caused by a startup program interfering with this from a potential Virus or malware. You might temporarily disable all of your startup programs and restart the computer as a test to see.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

up its from an admin account so ill give your start-up idea a whirl

What I'd like to know is how to UNDO this particular change. I have Vista Home Premium 32-bit and I used one of those "tweaker" applications to turn on the password when the elevation prompt dialog appears. Now that same tweaker doesn't work to disable the password and return to the simple "click to continue" model.
Never mind that I'm an idiot for using one of those tweakers - the problem is that secpol.msc does not exist on this machine so far as I can tell and I don't know how else to disable the password check. Is there a registry key somewhere that can be edited or some other way to return to the default elevation prompt behavior?

Hello Beerslayer,

You can use one of the OPTIONS to To Have UAC Prompt Administrators for a Continue to return to the default UAC setting.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I had UAC turned off, but thought I'd give your "elevate privilege level" a try to avoid the " UAC is turned off " notification. Now I have security shields on some icons, and with SpywareBlaster for example, it tells me I do not have the privileges to Immunize, when I update, and if I click OK, it then goes ahead and immunizes anyway. Is that how it should be?

Security centre tells me UAC is turned off too.

Couple of hours later: Just restarted and security icons are now gone. A bit confusing, but I guess a longer trial will make the effect of these changes clearer.

Hello Seasalt, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Yeah, any time you change the UAC permission level you will need to restart the computer afterwards to apply the change as per the second to last step in the tutorial.

Shawn

Hi Shawn,

The third link at the beginning of this tutorial is dead.

• Microsoft TechNet: Understanding and Configuring User Account Control in Windows Vista

Thank you Aaron.

MS has moved it. I have updated it to the new link:

Understanding and Configuring User Account Control in Windows Vista

Shawn

You're welcome Shawn, glad I can help out.