Let's not encourage people to turn off UAC! Yikes! Anyway, what we've touched on in this thread actually has a name in Vista - Admin Approval Mode. >"In this mode (which is on by default for all members of the local >administrators group), every user with administrator privileges runs >normally as a standard user; but when an application or the system >needs to do something that requires administrator permissions, the >user is prompted to approve the task explicitly.
Further reading: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Admin-Approval-Mode-in-Windows-Vista-45312.shtml On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Ellen Rains Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Uh, I just did it on my Vista Home laptop. > > From the Admin account: > > 1. Access the Control Panel and select Classic View. > 2. Locate and click User Accounts. > 3. Select the Turn User Account Control on or off and respond appropriately > to the UAC. > 4. Clear the Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer. > 5. Click OK. > 6. Restart Windows ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
