Comments on: Disable Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC)

By: Vivian

Vivian — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:39:21 +0000

Thank you SO MUCH! You helped me a lot!

By: Merlin_Magii

Merlin_Magii — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:02:30 +0000

Thank you Raymond – very helpfull – added to toolbox.

By: Cute Lemon Jokes

Cute Lemon Jokes — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:19:50 +0000

When we talk about vista , people first impression is this windows is not stable yet. So every time whe nI request to change to vista , my IT staff will say NO NO NO.

Any way , is vista that kind of bad mah?

By: John Anderton

John Anderton — Fri, 04 May 2007 07:29:23 +0000

As far as I know, tweak UAC disables an option available in the local settings. I had done this some time back. All I did was switch on the auto elevation option and doing this causes windows to show me that UAC is off. :( You can read about what I have said in my post UAC = false; It shows you how to do the auto elevation manually and you can use that to enable/disable any other part of UAC. In my opinion, just enabling that one module is quite enough ;)

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:52:29 +0000

How does this tweekuac still work but quitely? In the windows security window it says it is not on, but in the User Accounts location it has the check box checked… What is actually going on with this exe file?

By: Megatao » Blog Archive » Hasta La Vista

Megatao » Blog Archive » Hasta La Vista — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:01:36 +0000

[...] My first impressions of Vista were quite good but I soon got bogged down with the much slated User Account Control (UAC) interrupting my every move with a “did you really want to go into that control panel item?” type message that you have to click through every time you go anywhere near something configurable. I can see why people are saying that although this is “good security” it is the weakest point as people will just turn it off! [...]

By: Andrei Belogortseff

Andrei Belogortseff — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:03:29 +0000

Raymond,

first of all, thank you for your kind words about our utility TweakUAC. :-)

I would like to address your concern that “virus programmers can easily disable User Account Control by modifying the registry value EnableLUA”. As a matter of fact, if UAC is enabled, it would not allow viruses to modify that registry value. The reason is, it requires a process to be elevated to be able to modify it, while UAC keeps viruses non-elevated, and therefore unable to change that particular registry value.

Note that I’m not saying it’s absolutely impossible to change that value, but virus writers will need to invent other ways of bypassing UAC, for example by finding security holes in the elevated programs and hijacking them.

So, it’s still a good idea to keep UAC enabled. The “quiet” mode offered by our utility TweakUAC is a very reasonable way to reduce the annoyance factor of UAC while still keeping your system protected by it.

Best,

Andrei Belogortseff
http://www.tweak-uac.com