re: User Account Control Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 6:40 am Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dom (33 messages posted) Seems to work just fine. Thank you. Dom On Monday, January 12, 2009 at 11:26 am, Deb wrote: >Try this instead: > >Turn off prompts from UAC > >It is a mistake to turn off UAC, not only does UAC help make your PC safer, it's >also the power behind IE's Protected Mode and several other features. >Disable UAC and you'll lose them all. Your system may even develop mysterious new >instabilities as a result. >The best solution is to leave UAC turned on. >But if you're tired of the prompts, launch Regedit and go to: > >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System. > >Double-click ConsentPromptBehaviourAdmin in the right-hand pane, set its value to >0 (use 2 later to restore the default setting), and click OK. > >You won't see any more alerts, but UAC will continue to run in the background which >means you'll still benefit from IE's Protected Mode and its other useful features. > > > Written in response to: re: User Account Control (Deb: Monday, January 12, 2009 at 11:26 am) Responses to this message: re: User Account Control (Deb: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 5:14 am) All messages in this thread [show all] User Account Control (Dom: Mon, Jan 12, 2009, 11:10 am) re: User Account Control (Deb: Mon, Jan 12, 2009, 11:26 am) re: User Account Control (Dom: Tue, Jan 13, 2009, 6:40 am) re: User Account Control (Deb: Wed, Jan 14, 2009, 5:14 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum