Microsoft has added a new feature “User Account Control (UAC)” in Windows Vista and Windows 7 which is a good addition. It prevents malicious programs to install in your system as well as it also prevents basic users to accidentally change system critical settings which can be harmful to the system.
Although its a good feature but sometimes it becomes annoying to experienced users who know what they are doing with their system. So if you also find UAC prompts annoying, then here is a very small but excellent utility "UAC Tweak" made by my friend "Tom" which can easily turn off UAC or can set the UAC settings to High, Medium, Low so that you get less annoying UAC prompts.
As you can see in the above screenshots, you can choose any desired option and it'll apply it immediately. Restart your system to take affect.
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Ingnition
Hey VG,
After restart, My computer couldn't boot up. It said something like your computer has crashed, please input the 6 digit # (number) to continue...
I don't really know about this things. Well I don't blame you. I just reformat. Anyways, my computer needed it bad. Thanks, I was able to use it on another computer and it works wondeful :)
VG
^^ I'm sorry mate about your system crash but this app has been tested on various systems before release and we never faced any problem. As you can see it worked fine in your other system. :)
goldi
Vg u have any .reg file to remove vista shortcut arrow from icons on desktop? i use an application which i found on how to geek. But i think u can make *.reg file for it
VG
^^ You can use following app:
http://www.askvg.com/windows-vista-shortcut-overlay-arrow-remover-aka-fxvisor/
I'm not suggesting the registry trick because it has side affects in Vista. If we apply the registry trick to remove shortcut arrow, it also empties the favorite area list in Explorer:
http://www.askvg.com/favorite-links-is-empty-in-windows-vista-explorer-navigation-pane/
ROD GANDY
I TIRED THIS ONE TO AND I TURNED IT OFF, HAD NO MORE POPING UP SECURITE SCREENS
THATS BEEN NICE.
THANK U CANDYMANGANDY
jj mcpooperson
Great little tool... but why is it trying to access the internet? I blocked it with my firewall, and it works well, though.
Dustin
This is great. There are some bugs with Windows 7 UAC right now where some applications are disabling the User's ability to change settings with the slider in the UI. I am experiencing this bug, but this program overrides it completely. Thanks!
Dugger
Is it possible to run this utility with command switches?
Intuit Online Payroll requires UAC to be disabled to export data down into my Quicken program.
It would be nice to set this utility to turn off UAC on paydays and restore UAC after I'm done. I could then use task scheduler to automate the UAC on and off changes. Manaul reboots are OK to deal with.
Erik
I found a cool tool on the Internet
it's called UAC Controller Tool v1.0.
It's freeware. But works only for Windows 7.
The tool is awesome; it allows you to easily control
UAC from the tray area. You just right-click the icon and choose one option
for UAC. The tool as I said before is free. I found it through Microsoft Answers
Forum.
Cheers,
Erik