Disable User Account Control (UAC) For Administrators Only

If you can’t stand the User Account Control prompts, but you’d still like to retain a little bit of security, you can disable it for Administrator accounts only.

What we’ll be doing is actually changing Windows Vista to automatically elevate the privilege level for administrators without prompting.

The nice thing about doing it this way is that regular users as well as Internet Explorer still run as regular users, and would still use the normal security mechanisms.
To configure this setting on Windows Vista Business and Ultimate, you can use the Local Security Policy configuration.

Just type in secpol.msc into the Start menu search box and hit enter.

Now browse down to Local Policies Security Options

Find the following in the list: “User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode” and double-click on it.

Change the setting to “Elevate without prompting”.

You should be all done.This is an easier method that you can use to do the same thing from the GUI interface.


Open up Control Panel, and type in user account into the search box.

You’ll see the link for “Turn User Account Control (UAC) on or off”. Click it.

Uncheck the box, and reboot your computer. You should be done with obnoxious prompts!