"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

I've noticed that a lot of the questions in these newsgroups are either
directly or indirectly related to UAC (User Account Control). In this post,
I will go over what UAC does, how it works, the reasoning behind it, how to
use your computer with UAC on, why you shouldn't turn UAC off, and answer
some common questions and respond to common complaints about it.

* UAC is annoying, I want to turn it off

Having to go through an extra step (clicking Continue) when opening
administrative programs is annoying. And it is also very frustrating to run
a program that needs admin power but doesn't automatically ask you for it
(you have to right-click these programs and click Run As Administrator for
them to run correctly).

But, keep in mind that these small inconveniences are insignificant when
weighed against the benefit: NO PROGRAM can get full access to your system
without you being informed. The first time the permission dialog pops up and
it is from some program that you know nothing about or that you do not want
to have access to your system, you will be very glad that the Cancel button
was available to you.

- JB

Vista Support FAQ
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

I think I missed the answer to the question, "UAC is annoying how do I turn
it off?" I am doing a copy and replace, small directories, which are each
located with in separate .zip files that I need to copy and replace from My
Documents to another drive. Having to do 6 to 8 mouse clicks for each of two
dozen directories is NOT FUN. Again, How do I turn it off?

To disable UAC prompts NOT UAC aka "Quiet Mode"

Run Regedit and navigate to

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\System]

Change the value of ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin from "2" to "0".

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"ScottK" wrote in message
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"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

I've noticed that a lot of the questions in these newsgroups are either
directly or indirectly related to UAC (User Account Control). In this
post,
I will go over what UAC does, how it works, the reasoning behind it, how
to
use your computer with UAC on, why you shouldn't turn UAC off, and answer
some common questions and respond to common complaints about it.

* UAC is annoying, I want to turn it off

Having to go through an extra step (clicking Continue) when opening
administrative programs is annoying. And it is also very frustrating to
run
a program that needs admin power but doesn't automatically ask you for it
(you have to right-click these programs and click Run As Administrator
for
them to run correctly).

But, keep in mind that these small inconveniences are insignificant when
weighed against the benefit: NO PROGRAM can get full access to your
system
without you being informed. The first time the permission dialog pops up
and
it is from some program that you know nothing about or that you do not
want
to have access to your system, you will be very glad that the Cancel
button
was available to you.

- JB

Vista Support FAQ
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

I think I missed the answer to the question, "UAC is annoying how do I
turn
it off?" I am doing a copy and replace, small directories, which are each
located with in separate .zip files that I need to copy and replace from
My
Documents to another drive. Having to do 6 to 8 mouse clicks for each of
two
dozen directories is NOT FUN. Again, How do I turn it off?