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What is UAC?

UAC User Account Control is a new security feature of Window Vista  Here is a typical example of an elevation prompt displayed by Vista

How to Disable UAC (User Account Control) on Window Vista by msconfig command

 

Msconfig.exe is a troubleshooting tool that can be useful for temporarily disabling UAC to determine whether UAC is causing an application compatibility problem. To make the change, msconfig.exe simply modifies the registry value.

To disable UAC with Msconfig.exe, follow these steps:

 

1. Click Start, type msconfig, and then press Enter. The System Configuration tool opens.
2.  Click the Tools tab.
3. Click Disable UAC and then click Launch.

A command window appears, and shortly thereafter, a notification bubble appears informing you that UAC is disabled. Restart your computer to apply the change.

To re-enable UAC with Msconfig.exe, follow the preceding steps, clicking Enable UAC instead of Disable UAC.

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One Response

1. Neeraj's Software Discussion says:

   August 22, 2009 at 5:15 pm

   Msconfig utility is very useful to make changes to the way our system starts. Apart from changing the services and the startup programs from loading it also gives us some awesome features which otherwise require a thorough knowledge of writing or editing the registry values. The boot.ini tab is very useful to get other features of windows bootup process.