Comments on: Temporarily Disable Vista’s UAC without Restarting your PC

By: Inferno_str1ke

Inferno_str1ke — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:56:00 +0000

I just discovered this from a magazine, very glad of it - until now I’ve had UAC disabled full-time, as it’s about as much protection as a cardboard fortress and I don’t like being asked to confirm every time I rename a file or delete something. Using this I don’t have to confirm that I want to press the spacebar, and don’t have to close the “What? You TURNED OFF UAC?” thing that appears in my taskbar every time I start Windows.

By: GreyZone.EU » Blog Archive » TweakUAC for Windows Vista

GreyZone.EU » Blog Archive » TweakUAC for Windows Vista — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:21:22 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:32:26 +0000

I see what you’re saying, but the UAC protection isn’t really in full effect when using the quiet mode. Anything could be run on my system without my authorization, and could modify system files or program files to expose information that I would otherwise want to be protected.

Yeah, Internet Explorer is still running in Protected Mode, but for the people who are not using Internet Explorer that doesn’t really help. Putting UAC in quiet mode is just the same as disabling it in my opinion.

Thanks for the great app though.

By: Andrei Belogortseff

Andrei Belogortseff — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:28:25 +0000

Ryan,

first of all, thank you for mentioning our tool TweakUAC, I’m glad you’ve found it of use.

I would like, however, to argue a bit about your statement that when the quiet mode of UAC is on, you wrote that “… your computer is susceptible to an attack during that time since UAC is essentially disabled.”

As a matter of fact, the quiet mode of UAC does not disable UAC, it leaves the UAC protection in full effect. That is, the applicatins keep running with the limited access rights to the system, the protected mode of Internet Explorer is still in effect, the virtualization of the old applications is still taking place, and so on. The only things missing are those “elevation prompts”, but they do not protect the system from malware, they are there to protect from the user himself only. (This is discussed in detail at our web site http://www.tweak-uac.com)

I hope this clarifies the issue in some way.

Thanks again,

Andrei Belogortsef
http://www.tweak-uac.com