I find the easiest way to stop UAC annoying you is to turn it off. I’d rather be impeded by a virus every few months than have my entire PC screech to a screen-dimming halt every time I rename or cut/paste a file. Not that I’ve had a virus for the past three years anyway.

For some people that might be the route to go, but I’ve set several people up with Vista over the past year and it has saved me from a lot of headaches. Most of their computers have been kept surprisingly clean, and they don’t have a dozen toolbars installed in Internet Explorer.

If you schedule a task to run as SYSTEM there will be no UAC at all, because it runs under a fully privileged account. You will still see one when you launch a normal app though with the run as box checked.

This tip creates a scheduled task on-the-fly when the user clicks the “Elevate Me” option, and so it works similarly to running it as System.

Ian Cammarata wrote:

If you want to set in on an the executable itself instead of just one shortcut, open the properties and check the “Run as administrator” box at the bottom of the compatibility tab. Then every time you run that shortcut/executable it will come up with a UAC prompt, then run with full administrator access.

That does accomplish the same thing, but the difference with the tip above is that you won’t see a UAC prompt when running the app using the scheduled tasks. If you check the “Run as Administrator” box in the properties you’ll see a prompt each tiem you try to run it.

If you schedule a task to run as SYSTEM there will be no UAC at all, because it runs under a fully privileged account. You will still see one when you launch a normal app though with the run as box checked.

If you want to set in on an the executable itself instead of just one shortcut, open the properties and check the “Run as administrator” box at the bottom of the compatibility tab. Then every time you run that shortcut/executable it will come up with a UAC prompt, then run with full administrator access.

That does accomplish the same thing, but the difference with the tip above is that you won’t see a UAC prompt when running the app using the scheduled tasks. If you check the “Run as Administrator” box in the properties you’ll see a prompt each tiem you try to run it.

For running a scheduled task, just set it to run as the “SYSTEM” user.

For something that you run normally, right click on a shortcut, open the properties, click advanced, then check the box that says “Run as administrator”. If you want to set in on an the executable itself instead of just one shortcut, open the properties and check the “Run as administrator” box at the bottom of the compatibility tab. Then every time you run that shortcut/executable it will come up with a UAC prompt, then run with full administrator access.