Guide | How To How To Disable UAC prompts on Windows 7 [Safer]

[bogdan]

The usual way of turning User Account Control off by dropping the slider in UAC Settings to Never notify has a couple of disadvantages:

• File system and registry virtualization is turned off;
• Protected Mode in Internet Explorer is turned off.

This drops your security significantly and some applications might not work and for others you will loose existing settings.

Windows 7 users have a better way to get rid of the prompts they perceive as annoyances. First of all, this method only affects administrators running in admin approval mode (the account created during Windows 7 setup, that you are probably using right now, is such an account), the behavior of UAC on standard accounts remains the same.
Steps:

• Open your Control Panel and click on the System and Security link;
• Click on Administrative Tools link;
• Double click on Local Security Policy icon;
• Once Local Security Policy window appears navigate to Security Settings > Local Settings > Security Options.
• In the list look for a setting called User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode. Double click on it and a window allowing you to customize this setting appears.
• On the Local Security Setting tab change the drop-down box to Elevate without prompting;
• Click Apply and close all windows.

Windows 7 home users:
You will have to use the registry to apply this setting as the Local Security Policy is not available for your version of Windows. The location of the settings is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

You need to change the value ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin . Double-click on it and in the window that opens enter a value data of 0 (zero).

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