Thursday, March 28, 2013

Disable UAC (User Account Control) Setting in Windows 8

Disable UAC (User Account Control) Setting in Windows 8

Hi,
This post i want to tell that in Window's 8 OS, although we Enable / Disable the UAC setting. It didn't affect in Registry (REGEDIT).

First we will see what is UAC
UAC (User Access Control):

It notifies us before changes are made to our PC that require administrative permissions. Mean once we change the UAC Setting from "Always Notify" to "Never Notify" we can Install Programs / Software which Window's OS thinks as harmful to system.

How to launch UAC Setting Screen: 

Open windows Run
Type "MSCONFIG" and press enter
Select Tools tab
Select "Change UAC Setting" tool and
Click on "Lauch" button

or

UAC Application Location:
C:\Windows\System32\UserAccountControlSettings.exe

Issue with Windows 8:

Althoug you change the UAC Setting with appliction. It didn't get changed in the Windows Registry, so in that case we have to change the value against concern Key in Registry as follows

Open the registry with REGEDIT command from Windows RUN and locate the following key in registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

here in right pane change the value for EnableLUA from 1 to 0 and restart you machine and enjoy...



Bye.