How To Stop The Prompts For Copy
Jun 24, 2008
explain me that what I'm doing and why I want to not have to keep answering the prompts questions. I have an external hard drive that I copy my files to each night. I have about 15 different folders on my hard drive that contain various amounts of documents, photos, etc. that I need to copy to the hard drive each night to back them up. I want every file in every folder to be copied over and to overwrite what is already on the external hard drive. I will never want to copy some but not others that are in the folder.
On Windows XP, all I had to do was drag the folder to the hard drive, answer ONCE that I want the folder to be copied over and that was it. I could leave my desk and come back and it was all done. Now with Vista, I have to wait until it thinks about it . . .Then it opens a promt that asks if I want to copy the FOLDER and override the one that's there. Yes I do. Then a few moments (moments, not seconds later) it prompts to ask if I want to override the files that are in the folder and then I have to check a box that says to do all the same action for each one . . . which is to copy and replace.
I want to override and replace everything all the time, which is why I'm copying the files. Now I cannot leave my computer and go eat dinner, I have to sit and wait for the prompts for each of the folders to ask me two seperate times if I want the folder to be replaced and then wait for the prompt to ask me if I want the files to be replaced. Very frustrating. I am the only one using my computer. It's a home computer and when I turn it on, I don't have to login or anything. It's just me and only me. I guess that makes me the administrator. Here's what I want.Is there ANY way to tell my system that anytime I drag a folder to a hard drive or to another place on my computer that I want it ALWAYS to assume that everything will be overridden and not to prompt me?
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Apr 30, 2010
How to disable Admin Aproval mode, Programatically- to stop UAC Prompts. i.e asking the permission while elevating to admin privileges. I need to disable this programatically. another way which is using secpol.msc and mannually disable Admin Aproval Mode
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This is what you need to do to disable the UAC prompts:Go to Administrative ToolsComputer ManagementExpand Local Users and GroupsClick on UsersRight click on Administrator and go to Propertiesuncheck Account is disabledThen just log in to the administrator and there you go no more annoying UAC prompts
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From Microsoft's September 27, 2007, press release: "(S)ince some of the systems that ship in emerging markets don't meet the requirements for Windows Vista, we will be extending availability of Windows XP Starter Edition to June 30, 2010. This will allow our OEM partners who sell PCs in emerging markets more opportunity to offer genuine Windows licenses."............
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