User Account Control (UAC) helps prevent unauthorized changes. We don't recommend switching it off. Using the Control Panel leaves little room for error vs. editing ...

Fuggeddaboud Microsoft’s crazy User Account Control. One security researcher has discovered that just by disabling admin rights, 92% of Microsoft vulnerabilities are cured, or at least the damage a ...

Microsoft bloggers Long Zheng and Rafael Rivera recently unearthed two flaws in UAC, one that disables UAC in Windows 7 without any user interaction, and a second that stems from Windows being set up ...

I'm trying to fix my wife's computer. I need registry access. When I try to launch it, I get the regular UAC prompt. It transitions to the dark background and shows the standard UAC prompt and I click ...

Use Control Panel or Registry Editor, but understand the risks This article describes how to disable UAC in Windows 10 using two different methods. We'll also explain why you might want to turn off ...