WINDOWS VISTA'S USER Account Control feature is a constant annoyance for many users, but turning it off entirely can leave your system vulnerable to online threats. Fortunately, you can do a bit of fine-tuning via the Group Policy Object Editor to disable the most irritating parts of this fea¬ture without ditching
it altogether.

Here's how to tweak the appropriate settings in this configuration tool:
Click Stan, type gpedit. msc, press <Enter>, and then click through the UAC prompt. In the left pane, find Local Computer Policy\ Computer Colifiguration\ Windows Settings\Secun'ry Settings\Local Policies\ Securiry Options. Now with Securiry Options selected in the left pane, look for 'User Account Control options' on the right.



To retain the benefit of UAC, leave it turned on but set it to stop prompting you. Double-click User Account Control: Behavior !if the deoation prompt flr administrators in Admin Approval Mode. Choose Ele¬vate without prompting, and click OK (see the screen shot above). A pop-up will complain that UAC is not on; ignore it.
You can also suppress UAC prompts entirely. It's not as safe as the default set¬tings, but it's more peaceful.

Vista Home Premium does not have the Group Policy Object Editor.
Then click Stan, type regedit, and press <Enter>. In the left pane, select HKEY_ LOCACMACHINE\SOFT¬WARE\ Microsofi\ Windows\ C urrentVersion\ Policies\ Sys¬tem. In the right pane, dou¬ble-click ConsentPromptBe¬haviorAdmin. Change the Value to 0 and click OK. You should see the effect immediately.