User Account Control (UAC) helps prevent unauthorized changes. We don't recommend switching it off. Using the Control Panel leaves little room for error vs. editing ...

I'm wary of the slider. The last time I used it to try to disable UAC it had some disastrous effects. Specifically it simply wouldn't prompt for elevation anymore. So even if you were logged in as an ...

The first thing I did after I installed Windows Vista was disable User Account Control—it’s pretty much the most annoying OS feature I’ve ever dealt with. Microsoft’s Chief Security Advisor in ...