Tech Tip of the Week

Get rid of the Security prompt in Vista (for advanced users)

Windows Vista’s User Account Control security feature can be irritating. If you dislike Vista’s habit of asking you every single time you try to do something if you are sure that you want to, then you can disable User Account Control.

Open up Control Panel, and type in user account into the search box. You’ll see the link for “Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off”. Click it. Uncheck the box, and reboot your computer. You should be done with the prompts.

Microsoft highly recommends that you do not do this. To make their point, after you ignore them and do it anyway, a red X shield icon plants itself in your taskbar. To get rid of this; In Control Panel, go to the Security Center. On the left hand side, click the “Change the way Security Center alerts me” and choose “Don’t notify me and don’t display the icon (not recommended).”