Stupid User Account Control Warning

[Ken Fox]

I have Vista on a couple of thinkpads, and have turned off User Control because I can't tolerate having to verify that I want to do this or that 3 times before it will get done.

Every time I boot up these systems, I have that asinine warning box and "Security Center" warning about how I am going to die (soon!) and painfully, if I don't change my ways and reactivate "user account control."

I'm sure I am not the only one reading this who has turned off this idiocy known as "user account control" in Vista, who will read this.

Is there some way, in the services or other function, to eliminate these annoying warnings of the coming of the end of the world?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[bill bolton]

If really don't want to take the trouble to understand what UAC is all about, then you could do this....

• Go to this registry entry:
  
  HKeyLocalMachine>>Software>>Microsoft>>SecurityCenter>>
  
  Create a new DWORD value called UACDisableNotify then assign it a value of 1.
  
  Reboot

... but don't come back complaining later if someone works out a wetware exploit for Vista systems with UAC turned off.

[Ken Fox]

If really don't want to take the trouble to understand what UAC is all about, then you could do this....

• Go to this registry entry:
  
  HKeyLocalMachine>>Software>>Microsoft>>SecurityCenter>>
  
  Create a new DWORD value called UACDisableNotify then assign it a value of 1.
  
  Reboot

... but don't come back complaining later if someone works out a wetware exploit for Vista systems with UAC turned off.

Thanks for the tip, Bill.

I have assumed that UAC is analogous to a similar function one finds in Linux, which I also found to be a major annoyance.

I have managed to survive a very long time with earlier OS's such as XP, on many systems, that lack this "feature." I have never had a problem due to the absence of it. I don't even run a firewall other than what is included in the XP and Vista OS's.

I do, however, make frequent drive images of all my systems, and were something to happen I could restore my systems fairly easily, which has not been necessary all that often, and never for this sort of reason.

What am I missing?

ken

[richarddd]

I might be able to cope with it asking once the first time a program is run, but for it to ask more than once on programs I've already approved is too much.

[JonathanGennick]

I'm sure I am not the only one reading this who has turned off this idiocy known as "user account control" in Vista, who will read this.

You are not the only one who has turned that nagging feature off. It only took me a few hours after getting my T61 last week to get fed up and turn it off. Trouble is, I still get nagged, only less often. "Off" somehow doesn't mean "off".

I am probably going to order a set of XP recovery discs, and run XP on the machine.

The "out of box" experience with Vista is awful, just plain awful. I don't have the words to describe it. Perhaps it'll grow on me while I await the XP recovery CDs.

[Ken Fox]

I have found that this problem is fairly easily fixed.

Open up the "Security Center," either by clicking on the annoying balloon notification or through control panel or the annoying tray icon.

On the left side there is a clickable choice of "change the way security center alerts me." Click on that, and select either to disable the alerts altogether or to just show the icon in the tray (what I have chosen).

I am embarrassed to say that there are things about Vista that I like, and I continue to use it, although on balance it offers nothing very useful that is new.

[cpascu01]

Google a program called TweakUAC...I've been using it ever since Vista came out.