Vista Squad

These links are from TechNet and well worth a look

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9033357 Service Pack 1UAC improvements

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9033340 Interview with Vista UAC Product Manager Austin Wilson

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9033341 Keith Combs on Windows Vista 30, Rootkits 0

 

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scottbelton@tiscali.co.uk

Hey Scott, what are your thoughts on UAC?  Have you ever tried copying files to the Program Files or Windows folders?  Man, what a damn mission.  Some usability problems that definitely can be solved.

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Ray Booysen
ray@vistasquad.co.uk

Hi Ray

I personally think UAC is great and was well overdue on all operating systems,

I have had many frustrating hours trying to get round it for software compatibility and moving files in and out of the Windows and program directories. The only real way was to turn it off which forces a reboot, what a pain! would be good if someone could find a hack to stop the reboot.

There are a number of ways to turn off UAC as follows, (obviously not recommended)

1.       Regedit

Click Start type Regedit right click run as Administrator

Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Locate DWORD EnableLUA right click modify vale to 0 for off and 1 for on

Reboot

2.       MSCONFIG

Click Start type MSCONFIG

Click on Tool tab, Scroll down to Disable UAC

Press Launch a CMD will open, when completed close window

Close MSCONFIG and reboot

Same again to re-enable choose Enable UAC , Launch etc.

3.       Control Panel

Click Start>Control Panel

Click User Account and Family setting click Add or remove user account Click on UAC prompt

Click on any one of your user accounts

Under the User Account screen click the link Go to main User Account page

Click link to Turn Of UAC again Click on UAC prompt  and remove check mark and yes you guessed it this will need a reboot.

4.       Group policy

Either Local Group Policy or via Active Directory GPO

For Local Start> Run> gpedit.msc

For AD GPO Open the Group Policy Management Console Start> Run> gpedit.msc from Vista PC that is on your Domain , in the GPMC look for the required GPO linked to your OU or domain were all your Vista PC etc are located and edit it.

GPMC Window Computer Configuration>Windows Settings>Security Settings>Local Policies>Security Options.

Then in the right hand pane find User Access Control policies and edit accordingly

                And you will never guess, but yes you will need to reboot the pc’s to apply!

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scottbelton@tiscali.co.uk

There are ways to temporaily disable UAC without a reboot check out these links:-

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/search/results.php?section=&from=hp-bb-headersearch&query=turn+off+uac+%2B+no+reboot

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/06/03/temporarily-disable-uac-in-vista-without-rebooting/

 Hope these are interesting and on the right track for you Ray.

 

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scottbelton@tiscali.co.uk

You can also enable or disable UAC from the command line:

Disable UAC

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Enable UAC

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

and yes you will have to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect.

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scottbelton@tiscali.co.uk

I guess we can say that this is a comprehensive UAC disabling post. ;)

Awesome work Scott.

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Ray Booysen
ray@vistasquad.co.uk