The Hindu Business Line : Vista UAC dialog screen

I bought a new computer last month with Windows Vista Ultimate operating system loaded. It is very difficult to work in Vista and I lose patience because for most of the tasks, such as installing acrobat reader, to run disk defragmentation, to change firewall settings, etc, a dialog box appears and asks for administrator's password. Every time, I need to type the administrator's password to continue. Is there any way to tackle this? Please suggest a solution.

VINOTH KUMAR

You may create two types of user accounts in Windows Vista, namely Administrator and standard user. Whenever you perform a task that requires administrator privileges, say, adding or removing software, changing user accounts, and even modifying the Windows Vista configuration, etc, you will get a "User Account Control (UAC)" dialog box with warning prompt. This Dialog box may vary depending on the type of user (Administrator or Standard user) that you have logged in as.

Normally, if you login as a user with administrator privileges, you will be asked to confirm that you want to continue with that action. So just click the "Continue" button to gain the elevated rights needed to complete the admin task. If you login as a standard user, then you will be asked to provide a password for an administrator account. In your case, you appear to have logged in as a standard user, so you are required, every time, to provide password to gain the elevated rights to complete the admin task.

If you would like to have UAC enabled and avoid typing password every time, then you can go about this in two ways. One is login as a user with administrator privilege, that is add administrator privilege to your vinoth account. So you will get UAC pops-up with continue warning message. Now click the "Continue" button to gain the elevated rights.

The second way is to login as a vinoth account with standard user but set the administrator account without a password (blank password). In this case, UAC will prompt for password and you will have to just click the ok button to continue to gain the elevated rights.

If you would like to avoid even the UAC "Continue" pop-up screen (disable UAC), this is how you do it.

You can disable this by using "Elevate without prompting" local policy. First click start - type "secpol.msc" in the "start search" box. This will bring up the Local Security Policy screen. Expand (double click) the "Local Polices" Folder and then "Security options". On the right pane, please scroll down to the bottom and double-click the policy "User Account Control: Behaviour of the Elevation Prompt for Administrators in Admin Approval Mode". In the drop-down list, select the "Elevate without prompting" option and click ok.

Please note that disabling UAC is not recommended because it is amongst the good security enhancement features of Vista.

SOLUTION BY M. SAMPATH

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