On the ???Make changes to your user account??? page, click the
Turn User Account Control on or off link, and then turn off the Use User
Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer option.
But turning off UAC altogether isn??™t necessarily the best choice if you just
want to get rid of the incessant UAC prompts.
If you??™re using the Ultimate or Business editions of Vista, open the Start
menu Search box, type secpol.msc, and press Enter to display the Local
Security Policy editor, shown in Figure 8-14.
Figure 8-14. Use the Local Security Policy editor to get rid of the UAC prompts without
disabling UAC altogether
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Users and
Security
Expand the Local Policies branch and click the Security Options folder. In
the right pane, double-click the User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation
prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode setting. Here
you have three choices:
Elevate without prompting. This is the best choice if you want to skip the
UAC window altogether.
Even though this option gets rid of the UAC prompts, it does
not disable UAC. This means that applications that aren??™t
UAC-aware won??™t request elevation, and thus Vista will still
block any changes it considers dangerous.
Prompt for credentials. Use this to toughen security on your PC by requiring
a password each time. The UAC prompt still appears, but the user
can??™t click Continue if she doesn??™t know the password.
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