UAC or User Account Control is a technology and security feature in Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. It was introduced with Windows Vista and has been a consistent feature since then. It primarily aims at improving the security of Windows by limiting applications to standard privileges until an administrator authorizes an elevation. This means that only trusted applications get the administrator privileges.
If UAC is enabled, all the tasks that require administrator privileges will trigger the UAC prompt. It may be any of the following tasks.
- Running an Application as an Administrator
- Changes to system-wide settings or to files in %SystemRoot% or %ProgramFiles%
- Installing and uninstalling applications
- Installing device drivers
- Running Task Scheduler
- Restoring backed-up system files
- Viewing or changing another user’s folders and files
- Configuring Windows Update
- Adding or removing user accounts
- Changing a user’s account type
- Installing ActiveX controls
- Changing settings for Windows Firewall
- Changing UAC settings
- Configuring Parental Controls
- Running Disk Defragmenter
Turning Off the UAC in Windows 7
You can turn off UAC in Windows 7 in two simple steps.
Step 1 Click on Start and type “UAC” in the search box
Step 2. Drag the slider all the way down to completely disable the User Account Control.
Now just simply reboot your Windows computer and feel the changes.
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This is good and generous information. I am so tired of the “are you sure” pop-ups and of copy machines, computers, cars, my email box providers and ISP and the government trying to be smarter than I am and make decisions for me about what I write, read, say and do. At least I can still THINK for myself.
THANKS for relieving one more headache!