I know I’ve been super happy with Vista so far, Ive talked about how I haven’t had any problems and how things aren’t as bad as people are talking about, but I ran across some things lately that has really eaten at my nerves. Right here, today, I am going to admit to you all one thing….

I am completely sick of Vista’s User Account control (UAC)!!

What is UAC you ask?

Well one of the things that people complained about when it came to using Windows Vista is how you get a message asking for permission whenever you go to do anything. you’ll get that message when you go to install a program, rename files if they are in certain folders, delete things….just about anything you do could potentially cause a message on the screen asking for your permission. That is Vista’s user account control at work.

It isn’t that bad…so I thought, until this past week. I have been working on trying something out that called for using a lot of batch files etc. programs that change other programs etc, what I was doing is unimportant, but what is important is that I spent the last week clicking "ok" or "continue". Couldn’t get the software I was hacking….er… fiddling around with to work until I realized one thing. The batch files I was trying to run were trying to do something that it didn’t have permission to do…thanks to Vista’s UAC. But….instead of giving me the message..and an option to give that file permission to carry out its task, it was just denying the batch file and it was closing with no reason as to why it isn’t working.

I never looked into it, but it is pretty simple to disable that…>cough< feature. And if you are sick of it like I am, maybe you’d find these instructions helpful.

I have to warn you though, even though UAC is annoying, it is still a pretty useful and helpful security measure, so I only advise disabling it for short periods of time….probably until you finish installing your WOW private server or anything else that uses hacks and shoddy programs to get running.

Also, you will most likely need to have administrator access to set this up.

Its easy, go to Control Panel. Then User Accounts (make sure you are looking into the account you want to change)

Next click on the last item that is labeled "Turn User Account Control on or off"

Turn Off UAC in Windows Vista

Finally uncheck the box and click ok. It will ask to reboot and you’ll have access to all your files, the way you want it.

Turn Off Vista's UAC

Just remember to put it back when your finished doing what you needed to do