Disabling vista user account control (UAC) and its warnings

October 13th, 2008

To disable UAC in Windows Vista:

  1. Go to Start > Control Panel > User Accounts, and click Turn User Account Control on or off.
  2. Search “regedit” in Vista Start Menu. Execute regedit.exe.
  3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center
  4. Right click on the right column, and New > DWORD (32-bit) VALUE.
  5. Enter Value name: UACDisableNotify, and Value data: 1.
  6. Save and reboot your computer.