Thread: 4 Ways to Make UAC Less Annoying on Windows 7 / Vista

The only largest irritation in Windows 7 and Vista is the UAC (User Account Control) system, mainly for people that do a lot of change. When you are trying to make configuration changes, it appears like every couple of seconds you are hitting a different UAC prompt. Sure, it is safer… but what options do we have to make it less irritating? There are at least four different methods that we can twist UAC to be less irritating.

1) Disable UAC Entirely

• The first thing you can do is constantly full disable UAC ... The only problem with this is that you ultimately make the system less safe if you type the person that downloads and many software testing. I can not imagine this, but at least you recognize that you have the possibility.

• Disable UAC the Easy Way

• Disable UAC from the Command Line

2) Auto-Accept UAC Prompts for Administrators Only

If you want to leave UAC enabled, but disable the prompts from showing up under your administrator account, you can squeeze a setting that will “Elevate without prompting”, so you not at all see the prompt show up. This is safer than disabling UAC totally, because an application started as a regular user can not do an action that is meant for administrators. E.g. Internet Explorer can still run in protected mode this way.

Disable UAC Prompts for Administrators Only

3) Disable the Blackout Screen (Secure Desktop)

The most annoying part of UAC for me is that the screen blacks anything other than the UAC prompts ... mostly because it is always to show up, and depending on your video card may carry strange things to your desktop. You can secure desktop mode, but set the UAC prompts the way they are ... This course is a potential security hole also, as a fraudulent application can "click" the prompt for you.

Make UAC Stop Blacking Out the Screen in Windows Vista

Create Administrator Mode Shortcuts Without UAC Prompts

Instead of disabling UAC in any way, what we can do is setup some shortcuts that avoid UAC entirely. This is especially helpful if you open a particular administrator-mode application a dozen times per day. The trick to this is using task scheduler to launch the applications, and then telling task scheduler to run the task. This is more protected than the other options, while only our particular shortcut will avoid UAC.

Create Administrator Mode Shortcuts without UAC Prompts