Does anyone know how to turn the user account control off? It's really annoying and it pretty much comes up every time i try to use a windows program. I tried to contact microsoft support about this but all they could respond with was, "we dont know what your trying to ask us". I'm pretty sure it's going to be a registry hack or one in the control panel ->admin tools...please help me on this asap!

Thanks,
Mike

User Account Control (UAC) can be deactivated by doing the following steps.
First, go to the Control Panel, then press User Accounts, then press Turn on/off User Account Control. In their UAC can be turned off. You will need to reboot to turn off UAC.

I highly DO NOT RECOMMEND turning it off and Windows will annoy you about it.

xboxrulz

Thanls for the info xboxrulz!

Although i would not do that, its always handy to find out how to do it.

I admit, eventhough it does get on my nerves sometimes, its still best to leave it on. It makes your computer (including Vista ofcourse) much more secure by Windows requesting you to allow the specific program or not. It's very handy as you can see if there is a program trying to open yet you didnt request it too - which could be a virus or spyware. Hope this changes your mind to leave it on!

why leaving it on ? It's annoying and it's slow. Securing your pc starts by being a smartass and knowing what you're doing. UAC is only for people who don't know much aboute security and still use IE.

I totally agree with you!

Why leaving it on? I say it's the most annoying part of Vista.

LOL.. totally agreeded with you x 2. Initially it was quite cool function when I first started using Vista. But it prompt you too often. So often that I totally got irritated.

XP is still my choice for now if talking about Windows.

Same, but Vista does have its merits (even if they are hidden under a load of abuse from most XP users ).

Seriously, though, when it comes to community support (namely what other people on forums know instead of Microsoft itself), sticking with XP is often the way to go. If you're going to do anything "non-standard", at the moment most people use XP (or at least have used it) so they're more likely to be able to help. When it comes to questions concerning Vista, I find a lot of the time it's just a compatibility issue. To get something to work on Vista is often a lot trickier than getting it to work on XP, simply because it's new. After the majority of people use Vista instead of XP we'll be back to where we started, with whatever new Windows OS they release giving us the same problem.

A lot of people put Vista down - me being one of them - but really I think people over exaggerate. Sure, it's got a good few bugs, isn't compatible with a lot of programs, and is generally trickier to get running, but eventually XP will be outdated, meaning all of us who cling on the past and our comfort zone won't have a clue what they're doing once the world of Vista has been thrust upon them or face slipping back in versions much like most people consider '95 to be today.

Either that, or you can just go get yourself a Mac like I'm thinking about doing.

I don't use Windows Vista right now, but I got a book from the library that was by Microsoft and it seems that UAC is quite cool.

Let's take a look at the glossary, shall we?



It sounds good, after all, it is a Microsoft book. Now let's take a look at what Wikipedia says:



So therefore, it helps keep the computer safe by letting the user explicitly permit software to run that "could disrupt your computer or affect its users".

Here is an interesting passage I found in Wikipedia also:

There are a number of configurable UAC settings. It is possible to:[8]


This means that if you are an administrator, or the only user on the computer, then you can disable the prompt entirely! Personally, I wouldn't do that, I think it is cool. But if it annoys you so much, you can do that.



I think that the benefits outweigh the criticism.

To disable UAC for administrators, you can use Group Policy Editor to do that. But I don't think Administrators have to enter a password anyways, so why disable UAC?

I may be completely wrong about this, I don't use Vista, yet. But it seems pretty logical to me right now.