User Account Control is a new security feature in Windows Vista to prevent execution of unauthorized applications.
If tired of annoying popups that seem to come when you try to run any application in Vista,it means UAC is in charge of your access.
I will show two ways to disable UAC in Windows Vista -the graphical or clicking way and of course the command prompt way.
Let’s first take a look at the graphical way :
Access Control Panel>User Accounts.
Click on Turn User Account Control on or off.
This will bring up a new window,remove the tick mark from the box which displays Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer.
Click Ok and reboot the machine once.
All done,no more annoying popups from UAC.
And now,the command prompt way – this is quicker and looks cool too :
Access command prompt (Start>Run>command prompt).
Copy paste the following command :
C:WindowsSystem32cmd.exe /k %windir%System32reg.exe ADD HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
This has to be done after launching the command prompt with administrative rights else the error message Access denied will be seen.
Reboot and experience the freedom.
In case,if UAC needs to be turned back on,simply put a click in the UAC option box and hit OK.
For doing the same through command prompt,use the following command from command prompt :
C:WindowsSystem32cmd.exe /k %windir%System32reg.exe ADD HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Just to give an idea about why the command prompt way is much quicker – the command that is entered will basically use registry editor to change the value of registry key that controls UAC to either 0 (which is UAC disabled) or 1 (which is UAC enabled).
Isn’t binary world wonderful – 2 choices for everything 🙂 ?
Peace.