Simple turn off UAC instructions.

Now I have been getting even more UAC questions after the New York Times article today. Registration needed or use this bugmenot link. So here are instructions on turning off UAC on a Vista SP1 machine. Check out the next post for some more helpful tips as well! But, Dont go shooting yourself in the foot young admins!

It is possible to switch UAC off. I really don’t recommend it (YES I DO!) – if you like full control over your machine, surely you want to know when something is attempting to perform an administrative-level action?

There are two ways to disable UAC. The easy solution is through Control Panel. Type “UAC” into the search bar at the top of the screen and you’ll see this task presented:

This approach is pretty brute-force, though. It just switches the whole thing off. There’s a more subtle configuration choice that gives you some of the benefits of UAC without any of the prompting. You’ll need to edit the local security policy to control this, as follows:

1. From the Start search bar, type “Local Security Policy”
2. Accept the elevation prompt
3. From the snap-in, select Security Settings -> Local Policy -> Security Options
4. Scroll down to the bottom, where you’ll find nine different group policy settings for granular configuration of UAC.

Perhaps the best choice to select is to change the setting:
   User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode
from Prompt for consent to Elevate without prompting.

[Tim Sneath MSDN]