While this works on the surface at reducing nag screens, it does actually
bypass UAC features designed to protect you.

When you use secpol.msc to turn off this feature, you will receive the
"other" nag telling you that UAC is turned off. The nag can be vanquished to
a simple tray icon or turned off completely. The problem is: You will never
know if MORE of the UAC has been turned off by malicious software that now
takes advantage of the automatic elevation you are allowing.

Personally, I just turn UAC off (not recommended.) I am capable of
controlling my machine and have done so for years. 30 years, 0 infections
(unless you count spyware... but routine scans remove that also.) Of course,
today is a new day.



"Adam Albright" wrote:
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> This isn't another rant. If you're sick of UAC nagging like your
> mother-in law you can begin to tame it and in the process at least
> partially fix one known Vista Bug.
>
> Interested?
>
> Click Start, then where it says 'start search' type in: secpol.msc.
>
> Caution! Proceed with caution, you're about to go on a journey deep
> into the bowels of the beast, hip boots and pain medication on standby
> highly recommended. Best to set a Restore point prior to messing
> around, but this is really a simple anybody can do fix.
>
> What you're looking at now is the Security Policy Editor. This
> controls much of what UAC nags about plus other things beyond the
> scope of this post. For now the big thing that bugs me and I'm sure a
> lot of you reading this is the useless nag screens before elevating to
> Administrator level.
>
> First expand the Local Policies folder, then the Security Options
> folder and take a big gulp. You may also wish to expand this window to
> full screen.
>
> What you should see is a Laundry List of Security Settings. If you
> have trouble with other issues it may be worth your time to check out
> other polices, like if you have problems with network printers and
> DCOM kind of things.
>
> Let get rid of some Nag Screens: scroll down the list until you get
> to:
>
> User Account Control: Behavior of the Elevation Prompt for
> Administrators.
>
> Note there are three options. The one you want is Elevate without
> prompting. This only gets rid of the nag screen (most of the time)
> while leaving UAC turned on to do other things which are helpful to
> overall security. Click on the Explain tab to learn more. Be sure to
> click on Apply then OK or the change won't take.
>
> There is a similar options for standard users that works in reverse
> where you can automatically block and just generate a access deny
> message instead I would NOT change that.
>
> Now the surprise benefit:
>
> As I commented on elsewhere this afternoon one annoying thing that's
> "broke" in Vista is when you copy or move files the progress bar
> doesn't always show progress till the very end after the file is
> already copied or moved. I only saw this behavior when moving large
> files, your milage may vary. Interested if others now get the correct
> reaction if they change their UAC setting like did.
>
> I have no idea why, but simply changing the UAC setting I just
> mentioned restores the progress bar to normal function...at least it
> did for me. Now it behaves much like in XP, showing a gradual progress
> bar and a real time remaing countdown as files get moved or copied.
> Its still off as far as showing how much time is remaining, way off as
> far as being accurate, but that was also broke in earlier versions of
> Windows.
>
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