How to disable the User account Control (UAC) on Windows 7? 

Starting from Windows Vista onwards to the current Windows 7 a new feature User Account Control (UAC) has been introduced to help improve the security of the system. When you first install the Operating System by default the UAC is turned on. It purposes is to force the local administrator to operate the system as a regular user without the administrator privileges. 

Although this feature helps computer user to minimize this risk of being attack online or offline, it can be extremely annoying when you are a local administrator trying to do some tweaks or installing a bunch of applications and the UAC message keeps popping up every five seconds. 

There are a number of ways you can disable this feature but it is recommended that you have this feature turn back on after you have finish tweaking or installing the software applications to prevent a security breach on your computer system. 

So here you have it, three simple ways to switch off the prompt. 

Method #1 – Disable the UAC completely using the Control Panel or the Command Line. 

Using this method will reduce the security of your computer system and you are prone to attacks, but if you really need to turn it off because you testing a lot of software or you are running a demo and you do not wish to have UAC popup to disturb you then by all means go ahead and turn it off. 




For instruction how to use the control panel to change the UAC alert.

Method #2 – Using Group Policy to Accept the UAC prompts automatically

This method is a more secure way to disable the security feature but it only works for the administrator. Using the group policy you will have the prompt turn off for the administrator but for the regular user it is still enable. So any applications that run under a regular user won’t be able to perform any of the administrative tasks. For example the internet browser will be running in a safe mode instead of the administrative mode. 

To disable UAC using Local Group Policy click on Start -> Run -> and type in gpedit.msc and Enter. 

When the Group Policy Editor Windows appear, navigate to the following path: Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Polices -> Security Options 

On the right hand side panel find "User Account Control: Behaviour of the elevation prompt for administrators in …". Adjust the prompt alert as you desired.

Method #3 - Using Regedit to modify UAC alert

Another way to disable the prompt is to hack the registry and set the value of the key EnableLUA to 0. This is not a recommended way to turn off the prompt but a possible option.

Note: You should always backup the registry before attempting to make any changes to the registry. In the event that the registry is corrupted you can always restore from the back up.

Click on the start button then in the Run or Search box type in regedt32 and Enter. If you are facing a prompt then click Yes to continue.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ System

Find the key EnableLUA and set it to 0. When you want to turn the UAC back on, set the value back to 1. If the changes does not take affect immediately then you might have to restart your computer.

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