Vista - turn off user account control

How to turn off User Account Control ?

The endless prompts are driving me batty ...

See this link from my website:
http://www.winuser.co.uk/windows_vis...t_control.html

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"John A Grandy" <johnagrandy@xxxxxx-mail-dot-com> wrote in message
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I have simply answered the OP's specific question which was how to turn UAC
off. As far as the OP is concerned the prompts are 'driving him batty.' If
there was a specific problem I would imagine that the OP would have pointed
that out, in which case we could have elaborated a little more.

While I agree, Yes we could have asked 'what is your specific problem' but I
have found that, in many cases, a reply to ones specific questioning isn't
always forthcoming. We spend a lot of time answering questions, not only on
this newsgroup, but many others, and although most posts answered by me are
flagged I don't always have the time to keep going back over old posts to
see if someone has answered my specific question.

Your own signature line says it all. We can only answer the question posed
by the poster, if all the information isn't there we can only give an
'approximate' answer and hope that that solves the problem. We certainly are
not infallible, but we also do not get paid for our contributions to users
problems and, in the end, we do have to juggle between a full time job and
voluntary support technicians. We are not super human, we can't read minds,
all we can do is answer the original question posed.

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"Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Under "Control Panel" select "User Accounts". Find the one you use and the
bottom selection should say something like "turn user account control on or
off". Excuse me if the text is not 100 % correct as I am using a Danish
version and therefore do not know what it actually says in the English
version

"John A Grandy" <johnagrandy@xxxxxx-mail-dot-com> skrev i meddelelsen
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I agree that it is usually best to answer the question as stated, and doing
that here is good. I know that when I ask a question, I am often frustrated
when someone thinks I need to do something different and posts a message
with something that does not help then argues with me when I explain that I
actually do know what I am doing and that their suggestion does not help.

Usually, I am in your position in the sense of being the person answering
questions. I was the first person in the CodeGuru.com forums to reach 10,000
posts and more than 99% of them were attempts to help others. I have also
been answering questions in the MSDN forums. I know that people often ask
for help solving a problem that they think is a solution to a more
fundamental problem and that they should ask for help with the more
fundamental problem.

As for the UAC is concerned, I do find articles explaining how to turn off
UAC but I don't find anything explaining the problems that might exist if I
do; what vulnerabilities are possible that the UAC protects us from. If
turning off the UAC makes an Administrator account behave essentially the
same as the way that an Administrator account behaves in XP then for those
of us that "know what we are doing" and use a limited account for everything
that does not need Administrator privileges then it seems reasonable to turn
it off. I wish someone would explain that and I have not seen that type of
explanation.


"John Barnett MVP" <freelance@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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http://www.tweak-uac.com/
Tweak UAC Utility - put UAC in Quiet Mode or On/OFF easily

http://xenomorph.net/?page_id=336
Vista Tweaker - UAC too

http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm
Disable UAC

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/w.../aa905108.aspx
User Account Control

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/w.../aa906022.aspx
TechNet Getting Started with UAC

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true
Windows Vista User Account Control Step by Step Guide

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/win...9f44e1033.mspx
Understanding UAC

"John A Grandy" <johnagrandy@xxxxxx-mail-dot-com> wrote in message
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:47:36 -0800, "Sam Hobbs"
<Gateremovethis@xxxxxx> wrote:
Then "Gordon" the nanny probably pisses you off a lot.
Good GRIEF! There have been countless posts in these groups about UAC
and there are countless more articles on the Web.

You need to go to Google Groups, find this group, and run a search.

Or just search Google in general.

"Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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UAC is a love/hate function with no grey area in-between. I have it turned
OFF..

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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:47:48 -0000, "Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx>
wrote:
IIRC, not too long ago you were saying that anyone who ran with UAC
off was part of the rabble that was responsible for all the malware
and virus infestations world wide.

Somehow Mike escaped that, hmm?

How did we ever live without UAC?

If you didn't have problems with malware before UAC, you probably don't need
UAC now.
With any other detection scheme, all those prompts would be called "false
positives" and leads to ignoring the prompt.
In that sense only, UAC is garbage.

Is it protecting me? Not unless you actually pay attention to all those
prompts and recognize who started the process.

Nothing beats safe hex.


"Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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