How can I disable the User Account Control (UAC) feature on my Windows Vista computer?

Windows Vista has the built-in ability to automatically reduce the potential of security breeches in the system. It does that by automatically enabling a feature called User Account Control (or UAC for short). The UAC forces users that are part of the local administrators group to run like they were regular users with no administrative privileges.

Although UAC clearly improves the security on Windows Vista, under some scenarios you might want to disable it. Follow the below mentioned steps to disable UAC feature in Windows Vista.

Step 1: Open Control Panel. Under User Accounts click on the "Add or remove user accounts".

Step 2: Click on one of the user accounts, for example you can use the Guest account. Under the user account click on the "Go to the main User Accounts page" link.

Step 3: Under "Make changes to your user account" click on the "Turn User Account Control" link.

Step 4: In the "Turn on User Account Control (UAC) to make your computer more secure"" click to unselect the "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer". Click on the OK button.

Step 5: You will be prompted to reboot your computer. Do so when ready.

In order to re-enable UAC just select the above checkbox and reboot.

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