Everybody knows that Vista’s User Account Control can be a pain. These are the nagging screens that ask if you want to allow a program (with the blacked out background). After speaking to some friends about it recently, I found I was wrong in thinking most people knew how to turn it off.
Then I found UACController. Emiel Wieldraaijer created UACController and he’s also the programmer of JkDefragGUI, the front end Graphical User Interface (GUI) to JKDefrag (a great free defragging program).
It’s a tiny portable utility that can disable UAC or put it in quiet mode. Quiet mode means that you should get most of the protection but without the nag screens. When enabling quiet mode the program modifies two registry keys (as explained how to manually do this yourself here).
Have you already got UAC switched off? Quiet Mode may be a better alternative. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
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Pallab
1 year ago
UAC was a real annoyance in Windows Vista. Fortunately in Win 7 you can tone it down. I don’t find it so annoying at the lowest level.
But this would definitely help Vista users.
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Jonny
1 year ago
It would help Vista users, lucky I came up with this two years too late, ah well, looking to upgrade to Win 7 at the moment myself.