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The User Account Control (UAC) is a new feature unique to Windows Vista which aims to make your operating system more secure than XP.

Essentially the UAC is an application that stops all applications from being loaded unless you trust it. Whenever you do a certain task (Installing device drivers, Changing settings for Windows Firewall etc) you will get a UAC popup that asks you for permission to run the task. By using UAC you can stop any dangerous files from being loaded onto your computer, as you need to give permission to any application trying to run.

There have been some complaints from many users of Vista that the UAC slows down many tasks on computers, including important things such as installing new programs. In fact, a product unit manager David Cross from Microsoft recently said about the UAC;

“The reason we put UAC into the [Vista] platform was to annoy users — I’m serious.”

Statements like this make many users believe that the UAC is just plain annoying, but what David Cross was saying is that by using UAC Microsoft is trying to get developers to change the way applications are made.

Turn off Your UAC

If you are getting way too sick and tired of UAC when you are trying to load software (we suggest you only turn off UAC to load new software), there is a way you can temporarily turn it off. To turn off the UAC, just follow this;

Control Panel Method

• Click and open control panel
• Click user accounts
• Click turn user account control on or off (accept permission)
• You will now be on the ‘turn on user account control (UAC) to make your computer more secure’ page

• You will be able to turn your UAC on or off here
• You will have to reboot to make the changes active

Msconfig Method

• Click start
• In search box, click run
• In your run box, click Msconfig (accept permission)
• In the system configuration box click on the tools tab
• Here you can scroll down to enable or disable UAC

• Click on either enable or disable your UAC
• Click the launch button under the command line
• You will now need to reboot to make the changes active