Don't Get Mad, Get Even! Disable annoying Vista pop-ups with this free tool.
If you've tried Windows Vista even for a short time, you have undoubtedly experienced its new security feature called User Account Control (or UAC for short). I bet that after you've seen and clicked on a few of the UAC elevation prompts, you were thinking: "With Windows Vista, Microsoft has achieved a new level of annoyance for the computer users" (or something along those lines.) If so, we have good news for you: you don't have to suffer from those pop-ups anymore!
Fortunately for all of us, Microsoft has left the means in Vista to make UAC less obtrusive, or to even disable it altogether. To make it easier for you to take control of UAC, we've created TweakUAC, our new software tool. (It's free for you and everybody else!) With TweakUAC, you can configure UAC to operate in the silent mode and make those annoying pop-ups disappear. You can also turn UAC off completely, and be done with it once and for all. Of course, if some day you decide that you want to have UAC enabled after all, you can use TweakUAC to turn it back on, too.
TweakUAC is extremely easy to use, as you can see from its screenshot:
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(Note: If you are clicking on the screen above and nothing happens, don't send us bug reports! The screenshot is just a picture of the program, it's not the actual program. To use TweakUAC, you must download it and run it on your computer, see here for the details.)
Whether silencing or disabling UAC is a wise move is open for debate. Meanwhile, if you consider yourself an experienced XP user, you may find TweakUAC of help for those times when you are making extensive changes to the configuration of Vista, such as during its initial setup. You may want to temporarily disable UAC, to be able to make the administrative changes without being constantly interrupted by the UAC pop-ups. After you are done configuring Vista, installing new software, adding the device drivers, etc., use TweakUAC to enable UAC back on, just in case. Or, leave it off: after all, if you have used Windows XP for an extended period of time without getting your computer infected, you will probably get by without UAC just fine.
If, however, the word 'hacker' scares the shitaki out of you, or if you've disabled your firewall because you did not want you computer to catch fire because of it, then you will be better off leaving UAC enabled, to let us all sleep a bit better at night.
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