Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Disable User Account Control

One of the things about Vista that seems to irritate a lot of people is the User Account Control feature. In essence an administrator is treated as a standard user. Administrators who attempt to perform an administrative action  receive a prompt asking whether they initiated the action. I think that this prompt is a valuable safeguard against  malware, but since a lot of people don't like it, here's how to use the registry editor to suppress the prompt:
  1. Navigate through the registry editor to:  "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System".
  2. Change the value of the "ConcentPromptBehaviorAdmin" key to "00000000".

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