Disabling UAC increases the exposure of the operating system to viruses and other malicious programs. Sometimes disabling is required for certain programs to run properly.
The annoying confirmation message displayed before running an executable can avoid lots of troubles caused by malicious programs and viruses.
Disabling UAC can be done directly from the Control Panel, using the command prompt or by editing the windows registry.
Disable User Account Control from Command Prompt
Experienced users can run the following command in CMD.
Note that you need to run command prompt with administrator rights:
%windir%System32cmd.exe /k %windir%System32reg.exe ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /fLess advanced users can follow the procedure below.
Disable User Account Control from Control Panel
- Go to Start
- Choose Control Panel
- In the upper right corner search for “UAC”
- Click on Change User Account Control Settings
- To disable UAC drag the slider down to Never Notify position
The image below is an example of steps to be followed
