User Account Control was supposed to be one of the killer new features of Windows Vista – something that was supposed to increase the inherent security of the Operating System and give malwares a hard time. Instead, it managed to annoy every single user and became one of the most hated features of Windows Vista. Sure, Microsoft toned it down a bit in Windows 7, but UAC is still very much there and is still extremely annoying.
One of the problems with UAC is that it is defective by design. Microsoft has stated in the past that they wanted UAC to be irritating in the hope that it would encourage legit software developers to reduce security risks associated with their software. Microsoft’s intentions were undoubtedly noble. For example, most applications do not require administrative privilege, yet unnecessarily request it. Unfortunately, even after almost half a decade, most software developers have not adapted and UAC prompts are still infuratingly frequent.
A quick solution is to disable User Account Control all together. However, a better solution is offered by a tiny utility called TweakUAC. TweakUAC supports something called “Quiet Mode”, which allows you to retain most of the benefits offered by UAC without any of its annoyance.
In Quiet Mode all elevation prompts are automatically suppressed for users with administrative rights (standard users will still be prompted). However, other features of UAC are retained. For example, Internet Explorer will still be executed in protected mode and applications will be (by default) launched without administrative privileges.
TweakUAC is a nifty utility, which makes UAC less maddening for administrators, without compromising on most of the security benefits offered by UAC. Use it, if you are fed up with the frequent UAC prompts.
Download TweakUAC (84.3 KB)
Cost: Freeware
Version Reviewed: 1.0
Operating System: Windows Vista/7
Thanks for this one..I din’t know that we can actually do it..
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Cool Tool, but a better tool has been released it’s
called UAC Controller Tool v1.0 and works
perfectly for Windows 7. It’s easy to use and supports
tray area icon.
*Works only under Windows 7.
However, I suggest this tool.
Thanks for the suggestion. Will definitely check it out.
Yeah! Have you checked it out? What do you think?
I myself think it is awesome!!!! You shall write another
article here about the new tool for Windows 7, it gives
you better Google Search and more visitors…..awesome!!!!!
Cheers,
Erik
[...] this year, I reviewed a tiny utility called TweakUAC. What it did was simple – it turned off all the annoying UAC (User Account Control) prompts [...]
Awesome, but you haven’t made a nice screen shot and
the tool according to their documentation supports a
technology called Quick Choice, read teir documentation
PDF: http://www.itknowledge24.com/Documentation.pdf
Cool man…
Have a great day….:) greatz
:)
I provided a screenshot for the main interface. Quick Choice is just a fancy name for the context menu options provided by the system tray icon. I don’t provide a screenshot for all the interfaces offered by an utility, simply because its unnecessary to do so. Moreover, Quick Clean is not really something I found handy. UAC Controller is a set it once and forget it kind of an app. I definitely don’t need it running in the background.
Fine, according to the developer of the program the best thing is
the actual “Quick Choice” function. Yes, the screen shot is OK,
but it isn’t that clear when you look at it. I am just trying to tell
you that you may change the screen shot, allways good to improve
the website content..and good for visitors.