If you??™re an administrator who??™s setting up this PC for someone else to
use, your best course of action is to give that person a standard account.
Then, in the Local Security Policy editor, set the User Account Control:
Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users option to Prompt
for credentials.
Prompt for consent. This is the default in Windows Vista. The UAC
prompt appears every time an application requests administrator-level
access, but all you have to do is click Continue to permit the action.
As you??™ve probably noticed, there are at least nine different settings for UAC
here, and while most are fairly self-explanatory, there are a few that deserve
special attention.
If you??™re using the built-in Administrator account described in ???Log In As
the Administrator,??? later in this chapter, then you won??™t ever see UAC
prompts by default. You can change this with the User Account Control:
Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account setting.
Windows Vista tries to automatically elevate most software installers to
administrator-level, which may not be such a great idea if you want to cut
your odds of a spyware infestation on your PC. If you??™ve turned off the UAC
prompt as described above, then set the User Account Control: Detect
application installations and prompt for elevation option to Disabled.
Otherwise, if you??™ve chosen to leave UAC prompts intact, you may want to
set the User Account Control: Only elevate executables that are signed and
validated option to Enabled.
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