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Windows Vista Conversion Guide : Death to the UAC!
By Robert | April 15, 2007
Over the next few day I will be writing a basic guide for people that are going to be converting from Windows Xp to Vista in now or in the near future. I will tell you about something that you can do to Vista to make it more user friendly and make it a much nicer transition.
Death to the UAC!
One of Vista’s most annoying features is the “Big Brother” approach taken by the user account control (UAC) system. If you install software edit files, explore CD’s or do anything that might change your PC’s configuration, the UAC step’s in like the fun police, prompting you with endless authorization menus. Forttunatly you can turn off the UAC.
The pervasive UAC is not hard to neuter, even though Vista acts like you have compromised your system when you do. To nuke “Big Brother” jsust hit the Start button and then go to the Control Panel. Now select User Accounts and click the menu item Turn User Account Control Off. Vista will then ask you to reboot your PC to put the change into effect. The reboot is due to the fact that to UAC monitoring works on a registry level.
However, after killing the UAC not everything is sweetness and light. The price of freedom is vigilance, and it will pay to keep track of the system changes more closely. With UAC disabled Vista isn’t watching you back anymore.
The next installment will be File Browsing and how to make it easier.
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