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Adam Albright
This isn't another rant. If you're sick of UAC nagging like your
mother-in law you can begin to tame it and in the process at least
partially fix one known Vista Bug.
Interested?
Click Start, then where it says 'start search' type in: secpol.msc.
Caution! Proceed with caution, you're about to go on a journey deep
into the bowels of the beast, hip boots and pain medication on standby
highly recommended. Best to set a Restore point prior to messing
around, but this is really a simple anybody can do fix.
What you're looking at now is the Security Policy Editor. This
controls much of what UAC nags about plus other things beyond the
scope of this post. For now the big thing that bugs me and I'm sure a
lot of you reading this is the useless nag screens before elevating to
Administrator level.
First expand the Local Policies folder, then the Security Options
folder and take a big gulp. You may also wish to expand this window to
full screen.
What you should see is a Laundry List of Security Settings. If you
have trouble with other issues it may be worth your time to check out
other polices, like if you have problems with network printers and
DCOM kind of things.
Let get rid of some Nag Screens: scroll down the list until you get
to:
User Account Control: Behavior of the Elevation Prompt for
Administrators.
Note there are three options. The one you want is Elevate without
prompting. This only gets rid of the nag screen (most of the time)
while leaving UAC turned on to do other things which are helpful to
overall security. Click on the Explain tab to learn more. Be sure to
click on Apply then OK or the change won't take.
There is a similar options for standard users that works in reverse
where you can automatically block and just generate a access deny
message instead I would NOT change that.
Now the surprise benefit:
As I commented on elsewhere this afternoon one annoying thing that's
"broke" in Vista is when you copy or move files the progress bar
doesn't always show progress till the very end after the file is
already copied or moved. I only saw this behavior when moving large
files, your milage may vary. Interested if others now get the correct
reaction if they change their UAC setting like did.
I have no idea why, but simply changing the UAC setting I just
mentioned restores the progress bar to normal function...at least it
did for me. Now it behaves much like in XP, showing a gradual progress
bar and a real time remaing countdown as files get moved or copied.
Its still off as far as showing how much time is remaining, way off as
far as being accurate, but that was also broke in earlier versions of
Windows.
mother-in law you can begin to tame it and in the process at least
partially fix one known Vista Bug.
Interested?
Click Start, then where it says 'start search' type in: secpol.msc.
Caution! Proceed with caution, you're about to go on a journey deep
into the bowels of the beast, hip boots and pain medication on standby
highly recommended. Best to set a Restore point prior to messing
around, but this is really a simple anybody can do fix.
What you're looking at now is the Security Policy Editor. This
controls much of what UAC nags about plus other things beyond the
scope of this post. For now the big thing that bugs me and I'm sure a
lot of you reading this is the useless nag screens before elevating to
Administrator level.
First expand the Local Policies folder, then the Security Options
folder and take a big gulp. You may also wish to expand this window to
full screen.
What you should see is a Laundry List of Security Settings. If you
have trouble with other issues it may be worth your time to check out
other polices, like if you have problems with network printers and
DCOM kind of things.
Let get rid of some Nag Screens: scroll down the list until you get
to:
User Account Control: Behavior of the Elevation Prompt for
Administrators.
Note there are three options. The one you want is Elevate without
prompting. This only gets rid of the nag screen (most of the time)
while leaving UAC turned on to do other things which are helpful to
overall security. Click on the Explain tab to learn more. Be sure to
click on Apply then OK or the change won't take.
There is a similar options for standard users that works in reverse
where you can automatically block and just generate a access deny
message instead I would NOT change that.
Now the surprise benefit:
As I commented on elsewhere this afternoon one annoying thing that's
"broke" in Vista is when you copy or move files the progress bar
doesn't always show progress till the very end after the file is
already copied or moved. I only saw this behavior when moving large
files, your milage may vary. Interested if others now get the correct
reaction if they change their UAC setting like did.
I have no idea why, but simply changing the UAC setting I just
mentioned restores the progress bar to normal function...at least it
did for me. Now it behaves much like in XP, showing a gradual progress
bar and a real time remaing countdown as files get moved or copied.
Its still off as far as showing how much time is remaining, way off as
far as being accurate, but that was also broke in earlier versions of
Windows.
