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| | I have Home Premium and I find that I am asked for permission to let anything be installed,upgraded or generally moved. It has stopped me updating drivers and is stopping emaiils going out. I am a sole user so I don't need this level of protection. Can I get rid of it all? |
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| Unfortunately, you can't get rid of ALL of it unless you use the hidden Administrator account to do your work. However, you can turn off UAC, which will get rid of most of the prompting.
The quick way is to open Control Panel, go into User Accounts, click the Turn UAC on or off link, and uncheck the Use UAC checkbox. Of course, that will then cause the security center "shield" to turn red, and you'll get nagged at every login to turn it back on, but that's the tradeoff.
For more details and tips, go to
http://www.howtogeek.com/tag/windows-vista/
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| | Yes indeed but if you then go into the security centre you can change the way it alerts you to things and turn that warning off and voila another nagging problem solved. I do love it when a plan comes together.
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| When I turn UAC off, the Palm desktop program doesn´t work anymore. It starts with a flash screen, and thern it gets stuck. This also happens with UAC on, if I configure that the program be executed as Administrator, although in that case I first have to confirm that the program will be started.
On the other hand, If I have UAC on, the program PS tray factory, will run but it will not function, when run at startup. It does work if I run it later.
Needless to say, there were no such problems in XP.
It is hard to get everything working in Vista  . |
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| Try changing the settings:Disable Admin Approval ModeUse the following procedure to disable Admin Approval Mode. | To disable Admin Approval Mode | | | 1. | Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, click Run, type secpol.msc in the Open text box, and then click OK. | | 2. | If UAC is currently active, a User Account Control dialog box will appear. If so, verify that the details presented match the request you initiated, and click Continue. | | 3. | From the Local Security Settings console tree, click Local Policies, and then click Security Options. | | 4. | Scroll down and double-click User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode. | | 5. | From the User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode Properties dialog box, click Disabled, and then click OK. | | 6. | Close the Local Security Settings window. |
Disable User Account Control from prompting for credentials to install applicationsUse the following procedure to disable UAC from prompting for credentials to install applications. | To disable UAC from prompting for credentials to install applications | | | 1. | Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, click Run, type secpol.msc in the Open text box, and then click OK. | | 2. | From the Local Security Settings console tree, click Local Policies, and then Security Options. | | 3. | Scroll down and double-click User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation. | | 4. | From the User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation Properties dialog box, click Disabled, and then click OK. | | 5. | Close the Local Security Settings window. |
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Change the elevation prompt behaviorUse the following procedure to change the elevation prompt behavior for UAC. | To change the elevation prompt behavior | | | 1. | Click Start, click Accessories, click Run, type secpol.msc in the Open text box, and then click OK. | | 2. | From the Local Security Settings console tree, click Local Policies, and then Security Options. | | 3. | Scroll down to and double-click User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators or User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for standard users. | | 4. | From the drop-down menu, select one of the following settings: | • | No prompt | | • | Prompt for credentials (this setting requires user name and password input before an application or task will run as elevated, and is the default for standard users) | | • | Prompt for consent (this is the default setting for administrators only) |
| | 5. | Click OK. | | 6. | Close the Local Security Settings window. |
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| secpol.msc is not found. It doesn´t seem to exist on my computer.
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