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Thread: PC Magazine Discussions - Vista UAC Headaches

Started 1 year, 5 months ago by rastaman01
I'm almost to the point of disabling this feature! First, I had two external hard drives that I had no problems writing to with my XP machine. When I bought my last laptop with Vista, it would not let me write to the hard drives. I had to take ownership of the whole thing by the Administrators group, which I happen to be in. This worked for now... Now the issue is that I have a partitioned ...
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BurrWalnut replied 1 year, 5 months ago
1. To turn off UAC go to Control Panel > Classic View > User Accounts and click 'Turn User Account Control on/off'. To prevent the security pop-up in the System Tray, right-click the red shield (or Control Panel > Classic View > Security Center) and click 'Change the way Security Center......' then choose 'Don't notify me and don't........'. 2. You don’t have to turn UAC off, you can ...

rastaman01 replied 1 year, 5 months ago
Thanks. This does what you say, and it works well, but unfortunately it doesn't solve my problem. The only way I can get to create a PDF from IE is to right-click on the Internet Explorer icon and 'Run as Administrator'. Only then will it let me save PDF documents.

pccare_himanshu replied 1 month ago
There’s a quick way you can enable or disable this annoying window from the command line: To Disable UAC C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32eg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\P olicies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f To Enable UAC C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32eg.exe ADD ...

BurrWalnut replied 1 month ago
Did you realise that the original post is dated July 2008? I hope the OP hasn’t been sitting around for 17 months waiting for your solution!

 

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PC Magazine Discussions - Vista...
Published (2008-07-03 21:53:00)
Thanks.  This does what you say, and it works well, but unfortunately it doesn't solve my problem.  The only way I can get to create a PDF from IE is to right-click on the Internet Explorer icon and 'Run as Administrator'.  Only then will it let me save PDF documents.
BurrWalnut
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PC Magazine Discussions - Vista...
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Did you realise that the original post is dated July 2008? I hope the OP hasn’t been sitting around for 17 months waiting for your solution!
pccare_himanshu
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PC Magazine Discussions - Vista...
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There’s a quick way you can enable or disable this annoying window from the command line:  To Disable UAC C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32eg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f To Enable UAC C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32eg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f...

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