As a user who jumped right from Windows XP to Windows 7 the second a program asked me if it could “make changes to my computer” I raged and instantly turned off the UAC, or User Account Control Center. Turning this off creates almost no security issues; so what if it won’t notify you if a program that you activate makes changes to your computer (if I activivate a program and it asks if it could run and I tell it to it better make changes to my computer, not ask me AGAIN if the program actually does something) or doesn’t notify you if you don’t have an antivirus (that’s my decision to get one, not my computer’s).
Before I tell you how to do this I am obligated to warn you: If you are not good with computers do NOT turn off the UAC. It can be helpful if you use many programs, but are not familiar with what a program should do or aren’t familiar with the telltale signs of viruses are; it allows you a third chance to say “yes, I am sure I want that program to run”.
Default Control Panel Menu:
Turning off the UAC’s confirmation messages to make changes to your computer is actually very simple: just go Start>Control Panel>System and Security>Change User Account Control Settings (under “Action Center”)>move the bar on the left all the way down to the lowest setting.
50-54 Button Control Panel Menu (Not Default)
If you have a menu that you manually changed to a 50-54 button menu (Depending on how much “stuff” you have on your computer), this is how you would go about disabling the notifications: Start>Control Panel>User Accounts>Change User Account Control Settings>move the bar all the way down to “Never notify me when:”
thank you for the advice on turning off the UAC. Although when I did it, I had to smile as after I had moved the slider down it then asked me to confirm the change !
The sick irony of it all. I do the same, haha. Glad I could help!
Thanks for this, Im not sure how well I will get on with windows 7 it seems to be a nannyist panic factory