Basic method: Control Panel
- Turn it off in User accounts.
- Now, Microsoft highly recommends that you do not do this. After you ignore them and do it anyway, a scary little red X shield icon plants itself in your Taskbar, visually screaming at you about the security risk.
- In Security Center, choose "Change the way Security Center alerts me" and then "Don't notify me and don't display the icon (not recommended)"
See: Gina Trapani, "Windows Vista Tip: Disable annoying “Need your permission to continue-” prompts", LifeHacker.com (25-Jan-2007).
Technical method: policy & registry
Utility-program method: Tweak-UAC (http://www.tweak-uac.com/home/)
Also see:
- "User Account Control Step-by-Step Guide", Microsoft Technet (20- Apr-2011).
- Tim Sneath, "Windows Vista Secret #4: Disabling UAC", MSDN (20 Sep 2006).
