Enable or Disable UAC From the Windows Vista

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UAC or User Access Control is a new feature of Windows Vista that is meant to enhance the security of your system. Each time an application is installed or whenever an important system change is made by the user or by a running process, the screen is blacked out and temporarily disabled and a dialog is shown with the choices to allow or deny the action.

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Disable UAC

To remove this recurring inspection, two methods are possible:

via the Control Panel

• Under User Account and Family settings click on the "Add or remove user account".
• Click on one of the user accounts, for example you can use the Guest account.
• Under the user account click on the "Go to the main User Account page" link.
• Under "Make changes to your user account" click on the "Change security settings" link.
• In the "Turn on User Account Control (UAC) to make your computer more secure" click to unselect the "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer". Click on the Ok button.
• You will be prompted to reboot your computer. Do so when ready.

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via Msconfig

• Go to "start", "All Programs", "accessories", "execute".
• Tap the input fields "msconfig".
• Click on the "Tools".
• In the list, click Disable User Account Control. "
• "Run", an MS DOS window will open for you to say "Success"
• Click OK, then restart.

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Caution

For some people not experienced in the use of Vista, this control can be very useful. It makes it possible to avoid a lot of nonsense.
He must also know that the drop off protection from malicious software! Indeed, activated UAC prevents software (malicious or not) to run with administrative rights.

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disable UAC on your machine:

1. Open Administrative Tools in Control Panel

2. Double-click on System Configuration

3. Click Continue to accept the UAC prompt

4. Select the Tools tab

5. Scroll down and select Disable UAC

6. Click Launch

7. Reboot your machine

Note that you may not be able to disable UAC if Group Policy configured for enforcing UAC on your computers.

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via Regedit

• Open Registry Editor.
• In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:
• Locate the following value (DWORD): EnableLUA and give it a value of 0.

Note: As always, before making changes to your registry you should always make sure you have a valid backup. In cases where you're supposed to delete or modify keys or values from the registry it is possible to first export that key or value(s) to a .REG file before performing the changes.

• Close Registry Editor. You need to reboot the computer for changes to apply.
• In order to re-enable UAC just change the above value to 1.