If you are a Windows Vista user, you might be aware of annoying "UAC" (User Account Control) Prompts. Whenever you want to run an EXE file or change system settings, UAC asks for the confirmation/credentials.
Although Microsoft has redefined UAC feature in Windows 7 and 7 allows to change the settings but what about Vista users?
We posted a detailed tutorial in past which shows how can you completely turn off the UAC prompts or modify its settings to decrease no. of annoying prompts:
A Complete Guide for Tweaking User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
How to Tweak User Account Control (UAC) Options in Windows Vista Home Basic & Home Premium?
But if you want something which can do these tasks automatically for you, then here is some interesting info for you.
"UAC Snooze" is a very small utility which allows you to temporary turn off annoying UAC prompts. It sits in system tray and whenever you want to turn off the UAC prompts, click on its system tray icon and you have done. Now you'll no longer receive those prompts. When you want to restore the prompts back, Click on the icon again.
You can also set the snooze time like snooze for 1 minute, 5 minutes, ...... 60 minutes by right-click on its icon and select the desired option.
Features List:
- Temporarily turn off UAC prompts by clicking on the UAC Snooze icon in the system tray
- Can be configured to start automatically with Windows and not require a UAC prompt
- Clicking on the icon can turn off UAC prompts or snooze for 1, 5, 10, 30 or 60 minutes (or user-defined time)
- 10 user-defined snooze intervals can be defined
- Right-click on icon to bring up menu to select action other than the default
- When prompts are off, click on icon again to turn prompts back on
- Options to modify prompt action when program opens and closes
- Tooltip shows time remaining until prompts will be turned back on
- Icon changes based on state (Prompts On: UAC Shield
, Snooze: Shield with a Z
, Off: Shield with an X
)
System Requirements:
- Windows Vista 32/64 bit (64-bit version can be downloaded
- Must be run from an account with Administrative privileges
- UAC should not be disabled
You can download its 30 days trial version and after that you can purchase it only for $5.
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Andrea
If a tool can do that, that means any malicious software could easily disable as well the UAC.
Winky
No, becouse this tool needs admin rights I think.
Andrea
Yes, I believe that.
But suppose you install some application, some screensaver, some toolbar... anything that requires UAC permissions to be installed. Well, suppose that this program is installing also a hidden tool like UAC Snooze that disable the UAC. Well, from this moment this application could do anything on your system, don't you think? And when you realize what is happened, is too late.
Jeff
When installing an application, the installer has admin rights, not the application. UAC Snooze, or any other application, can not turn off the UAC prompts until the user grants admin rights to the application. That is why UAC Snooze does require the user to grant admin rights the first time it is started.
Once an application has admin rights, it does not need to turn off UAC prompts to cause problems with your system, it can already do what it wants. That is why it is safer to use an application like UAC Snooze to temporarily turn off the UAC prompts instead of leaving them off all the time.
Amr Nasr Osman
I really like this application but it makes me wander about the security of vista if it can be disabled that easy .. i know that viruses might use it against me but why microsoft require me to restart in order to disable UAC but this utility can do that without restart !!!
Why Vista don't have this built in !!
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VG
^^ Glad to help you and thanks for your kind words.