Vista User Account Control?
Posted by Ben | Under Microsoft, Technologically Inept Monday Jul 28, 2008What an awesome weekend. Met up with some friends who I haven’t seen in forever, took a lot of shots, went to a cool show on Sunday and, as predicted, spent almost my entire two weeks pay in 2 days. Oh well, looks like I’ll be eating PBJ until next Friday.
I did decide to come in early this morning and try to tackle all of the issues I’m having with Vista so I can try to be more productive. I think I was able to figure out one of the big ones. Know those stupid “Windows needs your permission to continue” popup windows that come up every time you want to do something? Right after that scary 2 second black screen that makes you think the computer crashed all of a sudden? Like this one:
Apparently this is called User Account Control. It’s new in Vista. So now that I’ve finally figured out what it is, how do I turn it off??
Since your “Microsoft buys me lunch” post got picked up you’ll have a few visits from Microsoft folks.
UAC is protecting you, but if you really feel the need to be without it either (a) go to help and type user account control and the first page will tell you how to turn it off. (b) Go to user accounts and reset the password for the default administrator account and re-enable it. If you log in with this one it doesn’t get the messages - it’s assumed you’re doing work which needs admin rights, instead of bits of malware sneaking in.
Cool James thanks! That helps! Problem solved