Williamo’s Blog.

Continuing the thread of blog posts related to disabling/un-annoyifying (yep, I made that up) Windows Vista and it’s UAC, here’s a way to really, really disable the UAC nag and get yourself real Administrator access like in Windows XP prior versions:

1. Open “gpedit.msc”
   (I’ve already followed these steps on my computer, so notice that the Run dialog has the note “This task will be created with administrative privileges.”)
   
2. Once in Group Policy Editor, navigate to the following tree item:
   Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options
   
3. Open the item “User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode” and choose the option “Elevate without prompting”
   
4. Click OK and close Group Policy Editor.

You should be able to run programs with Administrator privileges by default. Granted, this is less secure, but that’s the way Windows has always been.

(BTW, the original, older version of this post from Beta/RC versions of Vista can be found here: Vista Administrator Access Howto)