How do I disable the Security Center notice about my UAC being off

As I said before...
Common sense goes a long way and with it, you need almost no protection.
(How did we ever survive before UAC?)
But, you will not convince the majority who become alarmist when you turn
off the mandated or perceived need for lots of protection. For some reason,
they seem to think that clicking a button stating Continue is protecting
them from harm. Do they understand the warning? If they've decided to
Continue after the first warning, do they need to read the same warning when
it pops up for the third or fourth time for the same program start? Better
yet, do they even read the message anymore? The only thing accomplished by
UAC is the absolution of MS from damaging your computer... ...MS tried to
warn you before krzpqtz.exe at 0x8007700b executed and YOU pressed Continue
anyway.

Enjoy your sense of security. Press Continue to end message.

It's only annoying until you run into something unexpected. Right after
Vista was first released, we went through all of the debates about users
getting to the point where clicking on the prompt became an 'automatic'
response.

One user told us about a utility that he downloaded and installed and he got
the expected 'security warning' about the file not having a digital
signature. He clicked to run the file anyway and the utility installed. He
then got a message to 'click here' to configure your personal settings. He
then received this prompt.

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...UACPrompt2.jpg

Without UAC, he never would have been aware of the second file being
installed, since he had already permitted the program to run. Needless to
say, he decided that he would leave UAC on.

Only in specific instances, such as an installation file that does not have
a digital signature attached. The security warning does nothing to protect
against 'drive-by' downloads that run automatically. Most of the smaller
software developers will not bother with a digital signature, simply because
it is time consuming and expensive for them.

It's not about you deciding to run a program, it's about 'isolation', it's
about 'integrity levels', it's about what background actions the program
will take when you do run it. Have you ever wondered why an application,
that does nothing more than make images look better, needs full and
unrestricted access to every part of your computer?

This is the whole point of UAC. The only way that a malicious program can be
installed is if the user gets complacent and stops paying attention to what
they are doing.

When Vista is first installed, a user will typically see a ton of UAC
prompts as they install all of their software programs and utilities, but
these will gradually become more rare. Windows has to overcome almost twenty
years of being a 'push button' operating system before it will attain any
semblance of a 'secure' operating system. The education of users as well as
developers will take some time. UAC and other security 'hardening'
procedures are not going to 'go away'.

When the majority of developers see the benefits, and start following the
Microsoft developer guidelines for coding their programs and applications to
run in a 'least user privilege' environment, UAC will become a prompt that
is rarely seen. The vast majority of windows software should not even need
to initiate a UAC prompt.

Take a few minutes to read the following article. It will give you a better
understanding, and show you the underlying reasons and goals of UAC.

The Long-Term Impact of User Account Control:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../cc137811.aspx

In Vista you can disable the UAC ( User Access Control ) from your Control
Panel in the Account folder. However, this will disable this option for your
whole machine, including the normal users that do not have administrator
rights.

You can disable this prompt window for administrators only by changing the
following HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE with the RegEdit.exe program ( this change
requires that RegEdit to be run as administrator ) :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Thevalue of "ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin" must be 0 ( zero ).
Value 0 = No prompt at all.
Value 1 = Prompt that requires to enter an admistrator password(even if you
are an administrator ).
Value 2 = ( Default ). Prompt that requires an acceptance only.
Note: Normal users will be asked to enter an administative password...

I know this thread is slightly out of date, but the problem is yet to
be fixed...

First of all, every single person that posted any of the above is a
f-ed up idiot. Rowanc88 asked a question about how to turn of the notice
of the Security Center about UAC being off. He did -not- ask how to
disable UAC, nor whether it's a good idea or not. No one cares whether
you believe turning off UAC is a wise idea or not, some people (like me
and rowanc88) simply like it turned off! Also, don't give an explanation
on how to turn of all Security Center notices, that was not the
question! "Our 'beef' is with UAC". If you don't know the anwser to
Rowanc88's problem, don't post anything. So now: How do you disable to
notice in the system tray by the Security Center about UAC being off? I
don't want any program like TweakUAC or whatever, I want a button
somewhere in my Control Panel or some RegEdit stuff.

Now that you've had your cry, good luck finding your solution.

You'd be surprised. Some forums award points for correct answers. He might
get a correct answer in spite of his vulgar insinuation.

Just in case the original post didn't get an answer, (using Vista)

Go to the control panel (classic view) and double click Security Center,
Then click - Change the way Security Center alerts me,
Select - Don't notify me and don't show the icon.
Ignore the warning - (not recommended)
Back out and Reboot.

Which turns off all Security Center notifications, which may not be
what is desired...

This will show you how to disable specific Security Center warnings
such as the UAC one instead.

Yes! This is what I was looking for. This answers rowanc88 question
perfectly. Thanks!

You might want to consider (next time) just posting your question
instead of chastising previous contributors of an old thread.

That original thread can be found here:

http://forums.techarena.in/vista-security/952106.htm

....and if you must reply to an old thread, including some pertinent
portions of that content in your post would be helpful.

Better yet, opt to use an NNTP client instead of a web based NNTP
gateway.

[Trebour]

You guys are funny, i happened to come across this thread by chance whilst looking for a solution to another problem, and was amazed by some of the comments you have made here and still no solution to problem, i looked for a way to do this when i first installed vista nearly 2 years ago and found the solution at the vista forums i think any how i copied and pasted the solution into my document archives in case i reinstalled heres what ya do :)

To disable UAC using Group Policy:

1. Click Start and click Run.
2. Type gpedit.msc and click OK. This will open the Group Policy Editor.
3. Browse to Computer Configuration | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Local Policies | Security Options.
4. In the details pane, locate the User Access Control policies.
5. Right click each of the following policies and change the value as indicated below:
* User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation - Disabled
* User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users - No prompt
* User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode - Disabled

Close the Group Policy Editor window. You can enable UAC again by changing the policies above to their default values.

Enjoy and hope this pleases some of you despite it being a security feature it is annoying as fook, it is completely safe to disable i have had it diabled for the whole time ive had vista, it always asks you if your sure you want to install any way, no need to ask you 2-3 times lol

Did you even read the original question?

It's not about disabling UAC, it's about disabling the notification from
the security center that your UAC (or whatever) is disabled. Just read
the subject line, it says it all.

....and the answer has been given several times in this newsgroup.

[Trebour]

yes i did read the original question, did you even read the solution i posted because if you did and even better tried it you will find that it does disable the warning notification !!!!!!

Except for those without the group policy editor.

[Joeviocoe]

[SOLUTION]

Start > Run
"Regedit.exe"

Navigate to:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin"=dword:00000000
"ConsentPromptBehaviorUser"=dword:00000000

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P.S.
To Wil, who said, "There is never a good reason to turn off UAC on a system that you use day to day."

You are wrong! There are many professionals who need to use elevated permissions as part of their job. IT professionals.

Also, UAC prompts for much more than the traditional prompt for admin credentials did before. UAC is not meant for authentication of an administrator... only a simple heads up that this program is gonna do or could do something to the system.

For normal users, this is rare enough to be useful. For power users, this is an annoyance that needs to go away during all 8 hours of the business day.

And that is why some users are assigned to the power users group, because they need to do more than a routine user (but less than a full admin).