Administrator | 
06 21st, 2007| 
There’s a lot of people complain about the annoying Vista UAC dialog. The truth is, for a normal user, you don’t really see it that much. However, if you see yourself constantly install and try new software, change system settings, etc… the UAC dialog is annoying. The problem is because the UAC diaglog is launched on a secure desktop, different from the one you’re using. This is for security reason of course. So whenever, the UAC dialog pops up, you have to stop doing whatever you are doing because you’re now in the secure desktop. To get back to what you are doing, you’ll have to choose “continue” or “cancel”. However, you can change that easily. Now, eventhough the dialog still pops up, it’s much less annoying because you don’t have to stop what you’re doing. To change that, you can do the following:
- Click on “Start” button
- Type in “gpedit.msc”
- Group Policies Object Editor window will opened up.
- Choose Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Security Options
- Now look for “User Account Control: Switch to Secure desktop when prompting for elevation”, you’ll see that it’s enabled.
- Double click on that and choose disable -> Apply
Now you’re done. You can test it out by run notepad as Administrator :).
One thing to note though, the UAC dialog was put on secure desktop on default for a reason, unless you find it really annoying everytime, i wouldn’t suggest doing this because now a hacker would be able to do output spoofing and other method to get administrator access. In other way, you put your computer at more risk doing this.
