Disable User Account Control For Admin Profile?

Jun 9, 2008

In Vista Home Premium, I want to disable User Account Control just for the admininstrator profile. I want User Account Control to remain enabled for all other user profiles. How can I do this? I have tried several methods that Google found, but always when I disable UAC for admininstrator, it is then disabled for other users. How can I disable it just for the admininstrator?

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I'm using Vista Home Premium. Since I am the only user of my laptop, I disabled the User Account Control (UAC). After every startup, a window pops up reminding me to enable UAC which I purposely turned off. Anybody know how to prevent this annoying window from appearing?

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Had enough of the constant UAC Authorization pop-up boxes? And given up trying to tweak UAC? There is a easy way to disable user account control so that you never have to deal with the approvals and requests for consent ever again. Just follow these steps below:

Click on the Start Button and go to the Control Panel.
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I'm sure you are well aware now of the advantages and disadvantages of UAC. It is great for non-admin users because it protects their computer from themselves.  For advanced users, it can be a much different story causing many annoying authorization pop-ups. This is most common when you are doing a lot of activities that require admin rights such as installing applications and configuring Windows Vista after a fresh install.  There is one practical solution to this issue that will help you with the UAC pop-ups if they annoy you and still benefit from the security of UAC.

This can be achieved by adjusting the local security policy to essentially disable UAC for administrators while leaving it enabled for low rights users.  When you are using your PC for normal day-to-day use, log in with your low rights account.  If you need to install a bunch of applications and make major system configuration changes then log in with your admin account.  With fast user switching in Windows Vista you can easily switch between your accounts with little effort....

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I am new user to the Windows Vista Home premium. My laptop is being shared with some family children. I given them the Standard User Account and applied various security policies regarding their computer usage.

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2. How can I disable "Delete Browsing History" or "Internet Options" for the internet explorer for a standard user.

I have searched on net but nothing fruitful can be done even on changing Registry.

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I would just like to ask a question about the UAC; if you disable the UAC account on a User does that disable it for the whole computer?

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How to turn off User Account Control ?

The endless prompts are driving me batty ...

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User Account Control. We promised that this blog would provide a view of Engineering Windows 7 and that means that we would cover the full range of topics—from performance to user interface, technical and non-technical topics, and of course easy topics and controversial topics. This post is about User Account Control. Our author is Ben Fathi, vice president for core OS development. UAC is a feature that crosses many aspects of the Windows architecture—security, accounts, user interface, design, and so on—we had several other members of the team contribute to the post.

We continue to value the discussion that the posts seem to inspire—we are betting (not literally of course) that this post will bring out comments from even the most reserved of our readers. Let’s keep the comments constructive and on-topic for this one. FWIW, the blogs.msdn.com server employs some throttles on comments that aim to reduce spam. We don’t control this and have all the “unmoderated” options checked. I can’t publish the spam protection rules since that sort of defeats the purpose (and I don’t know them). However, I apologize if your comment doesn’t make it through. --Steven........

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Anyhow, i have problems with UAC account setting: I can only disable UAC account via msconfig. If using Control Panel, I am not able to click any link that has the shield logo beside it. The window will appear and simply dissappear seconds after. By using the standard Administrator setting (not the true Administrator access): I cannot perform Windows Update. Error 8007005 , I cannot log-in to Windows Messenger. Same error message, I can connect to my wireless router, but the icon is showing as 'not connected', So far i found out that i cannot change the sound and mouse setting, I cannot uninstall program, i cannot change my anti-virus setting

Question 1:
- Are the above is what is supposed to happen when using standard Administrator setting?,
-If no: - Should I consider Vista repair or clean re-install?

-If yes: - I would like to have UAC security but with true Administrator access. Is this possible? If so, should I consider enable the built-in Administrator and set-up password?

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