I am new to Vista (Home Premium) and am only now beginning to use the
desktop computer on which it is installed. I cannot believe the number of
times that a series of dialog boxes pop up informing me that I need to
provide administrator permission to perform a simple task. Like save a copy
of a file to my external hard drive. This is a waste of time! Plus, it's not
like these boxes provide any kind of protection. All I do is give myself
permission by clicking on Continue or whatever.

I am the only person who uses the Vista computer and the laptop that is
networked to it. Is there a way to disable these annoying permission boxes?

Thanks!

Joan

Here are a couple of site that helps You to turn of Uac ( User Account
Control )

http://www.vista4beginners.com/How-to-disable-UAC

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/


Or google " Disable UAC "

Succes
GC


"A Baffled User" <vze265vd@verizon.net> schreef in bericht
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>I am new to Vista (Home Premium) and am only now beginning to use the
>desktop computer on which it is installed. I cannot believe the number of
>times that a series of dialog boxes pop up informing me that I need to
>provide administrator permission to perform a simple task. Like save a copy
>of a file to my external hard drive. This is a waste of time! Plus, it's
>not like these boxes provide any kind of protection. All I do is give
>myself permission by clicking on Continue or whatever.
>
> I am the only person who uses the Vista computer and the laptop that is
> networked to it. Is there a way to disable these annoying permission
> boxes?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joan
>
>
>

"A Baffled User" <vze265vd@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:%23XOOV1xcIHA.148@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
snip
>
> Plus, it's not like these boxes provide any kind of protection. All I
> do is give myself permission by clicking on Continue or whatever.
>
snip

It's not asking if you really meant it, it's asking if it was you that
did it.
The protection is that you are confirming that a potentially insecure
action was started by you the user and not by some piece of malicious
software. At least that's the theory as I understand it :-)

You can have security or you can have convenience but seldom both - it's
your choice.
In the course of normal work I no longer see UAC, only when I'm
tinkering.

Regards
Tom



Tom

Thanks so much!

Joan

"~~GC~~" <gcgc@invalid.telenet.be> wrote in message
news:0zEuj.57498$Od2.31596@newsfet11.ams...
> Here are a couple of site that helps You to turn of Uac ( User Account
> Control )
>
> http://www.vista4beginners.com/How-to-disable-UAC
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/
>
>
> Or google " Disable UAC "
>
> Succes
> GC
>
>
> "A Baffled User" <vze265vd@verizon.net> schreef in bericht
> news:%23XOOV1xcIHA.148@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I am new to Vista (Home Premium) and am only now beginning to use the
>>desktop computer on which it is installed. I cannot believe the number of
>>times that a series of dialog boxes pop up informing me that I need to
>>provide administrator permission to perform a simple task. Like save a
>>copy of a file to my external hard drive. This is a waste of time! Plus,
>>it's not like these boxes provide any kind of protection. All I do is give
>>myself permission by clicking on Continue or whatever.
>>
>> I am the only person who uses the Vista computer and the laptop that is
>> networked to it. Is there a way to disable these annoying permission
>> boxes?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Joan
>>
>>
>>
>

A Baffled User wrote:
> I am new to Vista (Home Premium) and am only now beginning to use the
> desktop computer on which it is installed. I cannot believe the number of
> times that a series of dialog boxes pop up informing me that I need to
> provide administrator permission to perform a simple task. Like save a copy
> of a file to my external hard drive. This is a waste of time! Plus, it's not
> like these boxes provide any kind of protection. All I do is give myself
> permission by clicking on Continue or whatever.
>
> I am the only person who uses the Vista computer and the laptop that is
> networked to it. Is there a way to disable these annoying permission boxes?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joan
>

This 'feature' is called UAC. In order to disable it, click start orb,
click in search, type 'msconfig', hit enter key, Click on 'Tools' tab,
then scroll down until you find 'Disable UAC', click on it to highlight
it, then click the launch button. OK out and reboot.

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"A Baffled User" <vze265vd@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:%23XOOV1xcIHA.148@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I am new to Vista (Home Premium) and am only now beginning to use the
>desktop computer on which it is installed. I cannot believe the number of
>times that a series of dialog boxes pop up informing me that I need to
>provide administrator permission to perform a simple task. Like save a copy
>of a file to my external hard drive. This is a waste of time! Plus, it's
>not like these boxes provide any kind of protection. All I do is give
>myself permission by clicking on Continue or whatever.
>
> I am the only person who uses the Vista computer and the laptop that is
> networked to it. Is there a way to disable these annoying permission
> boxes?


Don't disable UAC. If you do that you will allow viruses to write to system
folders, unless you do not run as Admin, as you were always supposed to with
2000/XP. People who never knew what they were doing always ran XP as Admin,
and got loads of malware, so now everybody has to endure this **** UAC.

UAC does make your computer much more secure, and you can have most of the
benefits, including IE7 Protected Mode, without the annoying prompts but
doing one of these:

I do this:

http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=84

Only works on Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions)

If you have Home Basic/Premium, you can use this, for the same effect:

www.tweak-uac.com/

This page also explains the benefits of not disabling UAC, but disabling the
prompts.

ss.

"A Baffled User" <vze265vd@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:%23XOOV1xcIHA.148@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I am new to Vista (Home Premium) and am only now beginning to use the
>desktop computer on which it is installed. I cannot believe the number of
>times that a series of dialog boxes pop up informing me that I need to
>provide administrator permission to perform a simple task. Like save a copy
>of a file to my external hard drive. This is a waste of time! Plus, it's
>not like these boxes provide any kind of protection. All I do is give
>myself permission by clicking on Continue or whatever.
>
> I am the only person who uses the Vista computer and the laptop that is
> networked to it. Is there a way to disable these annoying permission
> boxes?

Instead of doing what so many have suggested, in disabling or putting UAC in
silent mode.

Why not change the permissions on the locations you're writing to so they
are user-writable? Explorer shouldn't need to be elevated to write to an
external drive. So right-click on it, go to properties -> security and give
your user (the permissions level Explorer runs in without elevating), and
give it full control.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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>
> Instead of doing what so many have suggested, in disabling or putting UAC
> in silent mode.
>
> Why not change the permissions on the locations you're writing to so they
> are user-writable? Explorer shouldn't need to be elevated to write to an
> external drive. So right-click on it, go to properties -> security and
> give your user (the permissions level Explorer runs in without elevating),
> and give it full control.

I missed the bit about him writing to an external drive without the required
NTFS permissions. I have found that this is a big annoyance, even with
people I would have expected to know what they doing.

ss.

"Tom Allen" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>
> "A Baffled User" <vze265vd@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:%23XOOV1xcIHA.148@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> snip
>>
>> Plus, it's not like these boxes provide any kind of protection. All I do
>> is give myself permission by clicking on Continue or whatever.
>>
> snip
>
> It's not asking if you really meant it, it's asking if it was you that did
> it.
> The protection is that you are confirming that a potentially insecure
> action was started by you the user and not by some piece of malicious
> software. At least that's the theory as I understand it :-)
>
> You can have security or you can have convenience but seldom both - it's
> your choice.
> In the course of normal work I no longer see UAC, only when I'm tinkering.
>
> Regards
> Tom
>
>
>
> Tom
>

Well, I would not have minded if the permission boxes only appeared when I
was installing new software or hardware, for example. But when I'm simply
right-clicking a file under Save As in Word and then Send To my external
hard drive??? That would get really old fast!

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
news:OVsaSJzcIHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> "A Baffled User" <vze265vd@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:%23XOOV1xcIHA.148@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I am new to Vista (Home Premium) and am only now beginning to use the
>>desktop computer on which it is installed. I cannot believe the number of
>>times that a series of dialog boxes pop up informing me that I need to
>>provide administrator permission to perform a simple task. Like save a
>>copy of a file to my external hard drive. This is a waste of time! Plus,
>>it's not like these boxes provide any kind of protection. All I do is give
>>myself permission by clicking on Continue or whatever.
>>
>> I am the only person who uses the Vista computer and the laptop that is
>> networked to it. Is there a way to disable these annoying permission
>> boxes?
>
>
> Don't disable UAC. If you do that you will allow viruses to write to
> system folders, unless you do not run as Admin, as you were always
> supposed to with 2000/XP. People who never knew what they were doing
> always ran XP as Admin, and got loads of malware, so now everybody has to
> endure this **** UAC.
>
> UAC does make your computer much more secure, and you can have most of the
> benefits, including IE7 Protected Mode, without the annoying prompts but
> doing one of these:
>
> I do this:
>
> http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=84
>
> Only works on Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions)
>
> If you have Home Basic/Premium, you can use this, for the same effect:
>
> www.tweak-uac.com/
>
> This page also explains the benefits of not disabling UAC, but disabling
> the prompts.
>
> ss.
>
>

Thanks, ss. As I wrote above, I could live with UAC if it only opened on
software or hardware installs, but it was coming on when I did nothing more
dangerous than save a file to my external hard drive. Is there a way to
disable UAC only for that one function (that I use dozens of times a day)?

"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
news:480AA3AB-1B8E-4AFB-9185-F7100B55808E@microsoft.com...
> "A Baffled User" <vze265vd@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:%23XOOV1xcIHA.148@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I am new to Vista (Home Premium) and am only now beginning to use the
>>desktop computer on which it is installed. I cannot believe the number of
>>times that a series of dialog boxes pop up informing me that I need to
>>provide administrator permission to perform a simple task. Like save a
>>copy of a file to my external hard drive. This is a waste of time! Plus,
>>it's not like these boxes provide any kind of protection. All I do is give
>>myself permission by clicking on Continue or whatever.
>>
>> I am the only person who uses the Vista computer and the laptop that is
>> networked to it. Is there a way to disable these annoying permission
>> boxes?
>
> Instead of doing what so many have suggested, in disabling or putting UAC
> in silent mode.
>
> Why not change the permissions on the locations you're writing to so they
> are user-writable? Explorer shouldn't need to be elevated to write to an
> external drive. So right-click on it, go to properties -> security and
> give your user (the permissions level Explorer runs in without elevating),
> and give it full control.
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
> *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
>
>

I think that what you are suggesting here sounds like what I should do. I
have done what you say, and there is a check mark next to Full Control next
to my username. Maybe I haven't really understood what you mean.

In any event, what I really need is a way to disable the UAC permission box
when backing up files created in MS Word. That's the program whose files I
want to back up most often.

Joan

"A Baffled User" <vze265vd@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:%238GQr17cIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>
>> Don't disable UAC. If you do that you will allow viruses to write to
>> system folders, unless you do not run as Admin, as you were always
>> supposed to with 2000/XP. People who never knew what they were doing
>> always ran XP as Admin, and got loads of malware, so now everybody has to
>> endure this **** UAC.
>>
>> UAC does make your computer much more secure, and you can have most of
>> the benefits, including IE7 Protected Mode, without the annoying prompts
>> but doing one of these:
>>
>> I do this:
>>
>> http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=84
>>
>> Only works on Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions)
>>
>> If you have Home Basic/Premium, you can use this, for the same effect:
>>
>> www.tweak-uac.com/
>>
>> This page also explains the benefits of not disabling UAC, but disabling
>> the prompts.
>>
> Thanks, ss. As I wrote above, I could live with UAC if it only opened on
> software or hardware installs, but it was coming on when I did nothing
> more dangerous than save a file to my external hard drive. Is there a way
> to disable UAC only for that one function (that I use dozens of times a
> day)?

Yes. Give your user account full NTFS access privileges on that drive.

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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>
> Yes. Give your user account full NTFS access privileges on that drive.


Oops, I meant permissions, of course.

Right click the drive in Computer, Properties > Security tab.

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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> "Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
> news:ubZUGQ%23cIHA.1824@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>
>> Yes. Give your user account full NTFS access privileges on that drive.
>
>
> Oops, I meant permissions, of course.
>
> Right click the drive in Computer, Properties > Security tab.
>
> ss.
>
I went to that location, and Full Control is already checked under my
username.