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24-05-2009: 24th May 2009 09:21
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Re: [Guide] Disabling Services
very thorough guide, nice work
although i wouldnt just completely disable UAC
it has many security benefits aside from the annoying pop up screen, so for most users the best thing is to remove the annoying screen and they'll get the security benefits without knowing its even running
to do this:
Turn Off UAC Prompts: This step will turn off the prompts but keep some of the security benefits of UAC without completely disabling it. If you run Vista Ultimate or Vista Business, go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Local Security Policy or go to Start>Search and type "secpol.msc" (without quotes) and press Enter. Then go to Local Policies>Security Options. In the right pane scroll down and find the settings starting with 'User Account Control', double-click on the 'User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode' item. Select the 'Elevate without Prompting' option in the drop down box and click Ok - you will no longer see UAC prompts as all programs which require elevation will now automatically receive it as long as you are using an Administrator level account. However other UAC-related security features such as Protected Mode in Internet Explorer 7 will still remain active, so you don't lose all the security benefits of UAC.
If you run Vista Home Basic or Vista Home Premium, there is no Local Security Policy editor, so you will instead need to use the Registry Editor (See the Windows Registry chapter of the TGTC) to make the change:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\System\]
In the right pane, if it doesn't exist, create a new DWORD called:
ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin
Set it to a value of 0 to elevate without prompting, which will remove the UAC prompts without completely disabling UAC. The other viable values are 1 to Prompt for credentials, or the default of 2 to Prompt for consent.
Turn Off Secure Desktop Mode: Following the procedures above, you can disable the Secure Desktop Mode by altering the 'User Account Control: Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation' setting to Disabled in Local Security Policy, or for Vista Home owners, changing the following in your Registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\System\]
In the right pane find or create the following DWORD:
PromptOnSecureDesktop
Set it to 0 to disable Secure Desktop Mode, or the default of 1 to enable it.
stolen from here
E: unless you meant turn it off temporarily to delete the services then turn it back on again
in which case i dumb |
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