SURVIVING WINDOWS VISTA #1: USER ACCOUNT CONTROL

I spent some time the past weekend upgrading and tuning up my home workstation. Added some RAM, a new Ethernet card and upgraded to Vista Business, after an overdue hard drive back-up and clean up. Probably that helped a lot, but I have to admit that Vista doesn't suck as much as I thought. However, the first and greatest annoyance I found was this thing they call 'user account control.'

I always considered having to confirm frequent operations the they are on Windows XP a "necessary evil," but they way Vista is set up by default is just unbearable. So, I went online looking for a solution and the tips I found were even more confusing and/or based on older or different versions of the operating system.

Here is how to deal with it on Vista Business:

1. Open the Control Panel.
2. Click on User Accounts.
3. Click on User Accounts (yes, again)
4. Click on Turn User Account Control on or off.
5. Uncheck the box and click on the OK button.

That's it. After restarting the system, those evil modal alert boxes should be gone for good.

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Vista is great, but sometimes gets me really pissed off:(

acutally you probably finding it a complete hassle because you have just installed vista and keeping on getting nagged during software installations. I have been running vista for a couple of months now and don't look back. After you have setteled the ocasional nag is not too much of a hassle and it really does keep you computer very secure.

Yeah ok some people have had a raw deal. I still think that is microsofts best operationg system to date.

Yes, UAC is pretty annoying and intrusive. I?ve also turned this feature off despite what other people may say.

Well, it manages to be annoying, even after turning it off: everytime a log in, I get a systems message 'alerting' me of UAC being inactive.

Why can't the guys at Microsoft understand that no, is NO!

oscar, turn off security centers "alert me to problems" thing if you want to get rid of that part.

LOL - 'No' should mean 'No' - you're right. However, no one in this thread has mentioned the fact that UAC is there to try and save the majority of people from themselves. The vast majority of 'issues' with Windows start off with a user doing something that, in hindsight, is a bit dumb (installing badly written software, etc. etc.).

And no, the badly written software isn't the users' fault, but the problems that arrise aren't really Windows' fault either!

Whilst there are badly written programs and malicious people, then using computers in an uncontrolled environment will always be a balance between security and convenience.

Ian

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