Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
When running in Vista, I continually get messages about programs wanting access to do certain things. User Account Control says that it blocked it until I manually click OK. This is extremely annoying. How do I stop it from happening so much?
Name: BurrWalnut Date: February 26, 2009 at 05:22:10 Pacific
Reply:
To turn off UAC go to Control Panel > Classic View > User Accounts and click 'Turn User Account Control on/off'.
To prevent the security pop-up in the System Tray, right-click the red shield (or Control Panel > Classic View > Security Center) and click 'Change the way Security Center......' then choose 'Don't notify me and don't........'.
Summary: this is extremely annoying, everytime i go to a web page with something that has to have flash player the vista user account control pops up, EVERY TIME. so i have to click ok everytime i go to a web ...
Summary: straight from the microsoft website To disable UAC from prompting for credentials to install applications 1. Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, click Run, type secpol.msc in th...