RE: ANS: "What's the deal with UAC (Windows Needs Your Permission scre

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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?
 
To disable UAC prompts NOT UAC aka "Quiet Mode"

Run Regedit and navigate to

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\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?
 
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