Thanks Shawn. The PC has been rebooted upteen times but it never shows UAC
as on in the Control Panel even when it is.

That registry edit works, although I'm intrigued to find that I have
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurentVersion\Policies\System
as well as
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
(note the spelling of CurentVersion/CurrentVersion).

Mike

"Brink" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:1e11abe1f5c59deb489173ba9016b2b8@nntp-gateway.com...[color=blue]
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> It sounds almost like you didn't restart the computer the first time
> when you turned off UAC. It would behave that way if you didn't until
> the next restart. Not sure why it would not prompt you to restart the
> computer again if you change the setting after a restart again.
>
> Take a look at this tutorial to check the registry setting to see if it
> is set for how you want UAC to be On or Off.
>
> [url]http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/48893-user-account-control-uac.html[/url]
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
> Mike Bees;813951 Wrote:[color=green]
>> I need to switch UAC off to run some software which requires this
>> (according
>> to the release notes). So I go into the User Accounts setup through the
>> Control Panel and select "Turn user account control on or off".
>>
>> Strange Thing #1: The "Use user account control (UAC) to help protect
>> your
>> computer" checkbox is not checked, despite the fact that I get the
>> warning
>> prompts popping up everywhere whenever I try to do anything.
>>
>> Strange Thing #2: If I check the checkbox and click OK, then I don't
>> get
>> prompted to restart my computer and next time I go back in to "Turn
>> user
>> account control on or off" it's unchecked again (even if I reboot in
>> between).
>>
>> The user account is of type administrator.
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas?
>>
>> Mike[/color]
>
>
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