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Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, Administrative Pop-up Fix
Here I’ll provide you with a simple fix for this annoying feature in Windows Vista. You may not be able to access “Local Security Policy” with some versions of Vista. If not I’ll find a fix for you at a later date.
Before we go any further, I should mention that this is an advanced feature and may cause functionality issue’s if done wrong. With that said all you need to do is go to Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Local Security Policy. After you get into the Local Security Policy, click Local Policies then click Security Options. This will display your security options in the right panel. Scroll towards the bottom, and select “User Account Control Behavior of Elevation Prompt for administrators in admin approval mode” either right click and select properties or double click it. The default setting here is “Prompt for consent”. If you change this to “Elevate Without Prompting” that pesky pop-up goes away. While we’re here you can also deny standard accounts access to administrative functions, set this up for children or inept office workers. Select “User Account Control Behavior of Elevation Prompt for Standard Users” and change it to “Automatically Deny Elevation Requests”. This should keep you in control of what gets installed on your computer.
Tell me about your experiences with Vista, or let me know if you have a better fix then the one I’ve given above.
[…] Installation didn’t take any-longer than XP, about 30 minutes, and it even had almost all of my drivers. At first glance it looks pretty good, but the differences are surprising. I heard Bill Gates say in an interview that “with Windows Vista our focus was mainly on security”. This may be so, but it seemed like the only thing Vista was trying to protect itself from was me, the user. At every elevation of privilege, i.e. administrative options, program installs, or disk drive autorun, you get a pop-up asking you if this is what you really want to do. Its fine at first, and makes an average user feel a little more secure. But it gets very annoying very quickly. I provide a fix for this here. […]