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If you feel confident with taking control of security, you probably don’t need the User Account Control (UAC) that comes with Microsoft Windows Vista. This guide will show you how to turn off the UAC so that it doesn’t bother you any more.
1. Open the Start Menu and select Control Panel.
2. Now select User Accounts
3. Select Turn User Account Control on or off
4. Uncheck the box next to “Use User Account Control (UAC)…” and press OK
You will now be asked to restart your computer to activate your changes. After your computer is restarted you won’t be bothered anymore by the UAC.
If you want to enable the User Account Control again, you simply repeat the above process and at step 4 recheck the box next to “Use User Account Control (UAC)…” and press OK.
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Yeah, I Really used to get annoyed with all those Pop-Ups Popping up!
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Yeah, it gets old after a while!
Yeah, it gets old after a while!
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mine wont let me change the name of the adminstrator or turn off the uac any ideas i am logged in as the adminstrater but its just named itself sony/s
mine wont let me change the name of the adminstrator or turn off the uac any ideas i am logged in as the adminstrater but its just named itself sony/s
UAC is so annoying and I never got a Virus on XP, so what will change? Tahnk you!
UAC is so annoying and I never got a Virus on XP, so what will change? Tahnk you!
UAC is so annoying and I never got a Virus on XP, so what will change? Tahnk you!
I find the UAC aggrevating. I recently bought a Vista computer, logged in as admin, and got a lovely popup telling me I didn’t have permission. I was moving a text file from c:downloads to usernamedocuments. The UAC is not a security thing, its to cause more burst blood vessles. :-( I don’t use Windows firewall either. So I am not worried about it not updating by turning off UAC. User security is a good idea, but the UAC is very poorly implemented. I have worked on non-Windows operating systems, such as Unicos, and the security on those systems was much better.
I find the UAC aggrevating. I recently bought a Vista computer, logged in as admin, and got a lovely popup telling me I didn’t have permission. I was moving a text file from c:downloads to usernamedocuments. The UAC is not a security thing, its to cause more burst blood vessles. :-( I don’t use Windows firewall either. So I am not worried about it not updating by turning off UAC. User security is a good idea, but the UAC is very poorly implemented. I have worked on non-Windows operating systems, such as Unicos, and the security on those systems was much better.
I agree Jim. Windows 7’s UAC looks to be much better already.
I find the UAC aggrevating. I recently bought a Vista computer, logged in as admin, and got a lovely popup telling me I didn’t have permission. I was moving a text file from c:\downloads to username\documents. The UAC is not a security thing, its to cause more burst blood vessles. :-( I don’t use Windows firewall either. So I am not worried about it not updating by turning off UAC. User security is a good idea, but the UAC is very poorly implemented. I have worked on non-Windows operating systems, such as Unicos, and the security on those systems was much better.
I agree Jim. Windows 7’s UAC looks to be much better already.
I agree Jim. Windows 7’s UAC looks to be much better already.
New weirdness from Vista. New for me anyway. I have a WinXP hard drive, from a previous desktop computer, in an external usb case. I was going to copy more files over to my Vista computer. But the Vista machine claimed the WinXP drive needing formatting, nothing was there. 80 gigabytes, nothing there.
I shut down the Vista machine, and plugged the external usb drive case into my WinXP laptop. It saw the files just fine, and didn’t claim it needed formatting.
New weirdness from Vista. New for me anyway. I have a WinXP hard drive, from a previous desktop computer, in an external usb case. I was going to copy more files over to my Vista computer. But the Vista machine claimed the WinXP drive needing formatting, nothing was there. 80 gigabytes, nothing there.
I shut down the Vista machine, and plugged the external usb drive case into my WinXP laptop. It saw the files just fine, and didn’t claim it needed formatting.
@Jim – If you set up a user, in Vista, with the same credentials as your XP installation, you may find you can access the files.
New weirdness from Vista. New for me anyway. I have a WinXP hard drive, from a previous desktop computer, in an external usb case. I was going to copy more files over to my Vista computer. But the Vista machine claimed the WinXP drive needing formatting, nothing was there. 80 gigabytes, nothing there.
I shut down the Vista machine, and plugged the external usb drive case into my WinXP laptop. It saw the files just fine, and didn’t claim it needed formatting.
@Jim – If you set up a user, in Vista, with the same credentials as your XP installation, you may find you can access the files.
@Jim – If you set up a user, in Vista, with the same credentials as your XP installation, you may find you can access the files.
For some reason when I check this box and click ok, it does not enable user account control. I go back and the box is unchecked still.
For some reason when I check this box and click ok, it does not enable user account control. I go back and the box is unchecked still.
For some reason when I check this box and click ok, it does not enable user account control. I go back and the box is unchecked still.
That is great to know! I didn’t realize this could be disabled.
That is great to know! I didn’t realize this could be disabled.
I’ve had similar issues with my usb hdd in XP…never really could figure out the cause but I had really messed this hdd earlier playing with the boot sector..
I’ve had similar issues with my usb hdd in XP…never really could figure out the cause but I had really messed this hdd earlier playing with the boot sector..
Yeah, I guess there has to be a balance between being protective and making it too hard to do regular tasks. Hopefully Win7 will be much better at finding that balance.
Yeah, I guess there has to be a balance between being protective and making it too hard to do regular tasks. Hopefully Win7 will be much better at finding that balance.
Oh, just because you haven’t caught a virus yet doesn’t mean you won’t. Coders are finding more and more creative ways to get viruses on computers..
Oh, just because you haven’t caught a virus yet doesn’t mean you won’t. Coders are finding more and more creative ways to get viruses on computers..
Lol – reminds me of that joke that the biggest virus on the computer is windows.. :)
Lol – reminds me of that joke that the biggest virus on the computer is windows.. :)
That is great to know! I didn’t realize this could be disabled.
I’ve had similar issues with my usb hdd in XP…never really could figure out the cause but I had really messed this hdd earlier playing with the boot sector..
Yeah, I guess there has to be a balance between being protective and making it too hard to do regular tasks. Hopefully Win7 will be much better at finding that balance.
Oh, just because you haven’t caught a virus yet doesn’t mean you won’t. Coders are finding more and more creative ways to get viruses on computers..
Lol – reminds me of that joke that the biggest virus on the computer is windows.. :)