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

[Guest ScottK]

"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> 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.

> <span style="color:green">

>> UAC is annoying, I want to turn it off</span>

>

> 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/ </span>

 

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?

[Guest Bob]

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" <ScottK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:2BBBEF2D-7936-421E-9569-9295594B8E25@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue">

> "Jimmy Brush" wrote:

><span style="color:green">

>> 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.

>><span style="color:darkred">

>>> UAC is annoying, I want to turn it off</span>

>>

>> 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/</span>

>

> 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? </span>