Disable User Account Control just for admin profile? Vista Home Premium

[Tuttle]

Hello all:

In Vista Home Premium, I want to disable User Account Control just for the
admininstrator profile. I want User Account Control to remain enabled for
all other user profiles. How can I do this?

I have tried several methods that Google found, but always when I disable
UAC for admininstrator, it is then disabled for other users. How can I
disable it just for the admininstrator?

 

[solon fox]

Hello all:

In Vista Home Premium, I want to disable User Account Control just for the
admininstrator profile. I want User Account Control to remain enabled for
all other user profiles. How can I do this?

I have tried several methods that Google found, but always when I disable
UAC for admininstrator, it is then disabled for other users. How can I
disable it just for the admininstrator?

I don't think you can disable it for just one account. Maybe TweakUAC
(http://www.tweak-uac.com/what-is-tweak-uac/) is right for you?

Or, you could create two shortcuts one to disable UAC:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM
\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v
EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

And, one to enable UAC:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k %windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM
\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v
EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

If you really wanted to get fancy, then you could add a script to
disable it for your login and disable it for everyone else. Maybe you
could even entice someone to write it for you. ;-)

But, then again maybe TweakUAC is best for your needs.

-solon fox

 

[solon fox]

Hi Tuttle,

This tutorial will show you how to elevate the administrator accounts
so they are not bothered by UAC anymore.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/80938-user-account-control-uac-elev...

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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Brink

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Sweet! I love it when someone tells me something I didn't know.

Thanks Brink.

-solon fox

 

[Tuttle]

solon fox:

Thank you for those shortcuts. That is a really useful technique!
I don't know how I would write a script to disable it for my login and
enable it for everyone else, but that sounds like a cool idea.


Brink:

Thanks for offering another approach. I also read one of the other tutorials
on your site. I didn't know that there was a difference between the
initially-created Administer account and the "real built-in Administrator
account". Good grief. I set myself up as administrator, using the initial
account, so I could configure this laptop for a friend who will login as a
Standard user. I thought that Administrator meant "Administrator", but
apparently not.

 

[Tuttle]

In Vista Home Premium, I want to disable User Account Control just for the
admininstrator profile. I want User Account Control to remain enabled for
all other user profiles. How can I do this?

:
I don't think you can disable it for just one account. Maybe TweakUAC
(http://www.tweak-uac.com/what-is-tweak-uac/) is right for you?



I am now using TweakUAC. It's very good, even better than disabling UAC
entirely: it allows UAC to run in "quiet mode" so that the PC is still
protected but elevations warnings/prompts are suppressed for administrators.

Thanks for that, it was a perfect suggestion!