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Disable UAC for Administrators

Disable UAC for Administrators

Jun 12, 2010

If you’re looking to make UAC less annoying on Windows 7 or Windows Vista Business/Ultimate, while retaining some of your system security we have a solution for you – automatically elevate permissions for users in the Administrators Group. Many will not like this fix as it does make your system somewhat less secure.  We think it’s worth the...

Disable UAC screen Blackout in Window Vista Home

Disable UAC screen Blackout in Window Vista Home

Jun 12, 2010

In Windows Vista Home the screen goes dark when a UAC (User Account Control) window pops up.  Microsoft refers to this as the Secure Desktop.  However many people consider this to be rude an annoying behavior by their operating system.  We’re going to show you how to turn it off. For Windows Vista Home users, you will need to open up regedit via the...

Disable Screen Blackout in UAC for Windows Vista Business or Ultimate

Disable Screen Blackout in UAC for Windows Vista Business or Ultimate

Jun 12, 2010

In Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate the screen goes dark when a UAC (User Account Control) window pops up.  Microsoft refers to this as the Secure Desktop.  However many people consider this to be rude an annoying behavior by their operating system.  We’re going to show you how to turn it off. Please note this article is for Windows...

Disable Blacking out the UAC screen in Windows 7

Disable Blacking out the UAC screen in Windows 7

Jun 12, 2010

In Windows 7 the screen goes dark when a UAC (User Account Control) window pops up.  Microsoft refers to this as the Secure Desktop.  However many people consider this to be rude an annoying behavior by their operating system.  We’re going to show you how to turn it off on Windows 7. In Windows 7, you can navigate to the UAC settings in the Control...

Create Shortcuts to bypass UAC

Create Shortcuts to bypass UAC

Jun 12, 2010

UAC (User Access Control) in Windows Vista or Windows 7 got you down?  It gets me down all the time too!  We’re going to show you how to make a shortcut that when launched will run a program as administrator and bypass the UAC prompt!  This is need to know stuff! A little background on UAC.  UAC stands for User Access Control is part of...

How to stop Windows 7 from Highlighting newly installed programs

How to stop Windows 7 from Highlighting newly installed programs

Jun 12, 2010

Windows 7 is very good at annoying me.  I’d bet you too!  In fact, we find Windows 7, second to Vista is probably the most annoying operating system on the planet!  In this tutorial we’re going to show you how to stop it from being so annoying by showing you how to disable one of it’s most annoying features – Newly Installed...