How to Disable the UAC Permission Prompt
Possibly the most annoying 'feature' of Vista is this new prompt that, whenever you attempt to access anything that makes a system change you are prompted with 'Windows needs your permission to continue'. You must then click 'Continue' to well, continue.
Personally I think this feature is pointless, as it's only set to annoy tech types who know what their doing, and provide home users who don't with another dialog they'll mindlessly click 'Continue' on anyway. You can get more information on UAC here.
There are two methods that I know of for disabling UAC. The first method works on all editions of Vista, the 2nd method will only work with Business and Ultimate.
Method 1
- Click Start followed by Control Panel
- Switch to the Classic View (use the link in the top left)
- Double-click 'User Accounts'
- Click the 'Turn User Account Control on or off' link
- Untick the 'Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect...' box
- Click OK
Method 2
For Business and Ultimate editions only.
- Press Windows+R to bring up the run dialog
- Type in 'gpedit.msc' and press enter.
- In the directory tree on the left, navigate to: Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options
- At the bottom of the list on the right, you should find an option for 'User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode'
- Double-click on this and set to 'Elevate without prompting'
And that's the end of being asked 5 times whether you want to create a folder in the Start Menu.
