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A safer way to disable User Account Control prompts, Windows Vista
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post Jan 27 2007, 03:22 PM
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The User Account Control in Windows Vista is one of its strongest security features, and also it's most common annoyance. Especially, it's nagging "A program needs your permission to continue" prompts. These prompts are especially plentiful when setting up and configuring a new system. We recommend you leave UAC enabled, but if you must disable it, here's a safer way. Why safer? Because disabling UAC completely also disables "protected mode" in Internet Explorer. This method removes the annoying prompts, but retains protected mode in IE.

1. Open the Local Security Policy manager by clicking Start, type secpol.msc, hit enter (or click the secpol.msc icon).
Note: An alternate path to the Local Security Policy manager is Start -> Control Panel -> Classic View -> Administrative Tools, Local Security Policy.

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2. Navigate through Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options. In the rightmost pane, scroll to the bottom and double-click “User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode”, select Elevate without prompting, click OK.

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This setting will cause a security warning at every startup, and red X shield to be visible in the task bar. To remove it, in Control Panel, go to the Security Center. On the left hand side, click the "Change the way Security Center alerts me" and choose "Don't notify me and don't display the icon (not recommended)" as shown below:

As it says, disabling security alerts is "not recommended". This is because other security notifications like the firewall being disabled or antivirus definitions out-of-date will also be disabled. We recommend it only be used temporarily, for instance when setting up or configuring a new system.

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post Mar 23 2007, 04:09 PM
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I cant find that secpol.msc file anywhere, even if I include system folders in search. And its not in the admin tools folder. any ideas???
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post Mar 23 2007, 04:17 PM
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Which version of Vista are you running?
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post Mar 23 2007, 04:20 PM
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post Mar 23 2007, 04:23 PM
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You've got it. Try this alternate method: Open the Control Panel, select System and Maintenance, select Administrative Tools and click the Local Security Policy.
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post Mar 23 2007, 04:36 PM
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I dont
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post Mar 23 2007, 04:38 PM
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can I post a screenshot to show you what I have for options?? If so how??
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post Mar 23 2007, 10:18 PM
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yeah i dont see it either and i am running premium
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i to also have home premium and see nothing like that. just goes to prove vista is crap.
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