UAC

[Worn Out Retread]

I am getting a new computer for my wife and it will be running Windows 7 64
bit.

I want to set it up so that she can turn it on and it will boot right to the
desktop and in addition I don't want her to get UAC messages when she uses
the installed programs on her computer such as Internet Explorer, Office and
her graphics programs.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Thank you

 

[Gordon]

I am getting a new computer for my wife and it will be running Windows 7
64 bit.

I want to set it up so that she can turn it on and it will boot right to
the desktop

You've thought about the security implications of this?

and in addition I don't want her to get UAC messages when she uses the
installed programs on her computer such as Internet Explorer, Office and
her graphics programs.

What makes you think she will?

 

[Bob Hatch]

You've thought about the security implications of this?


What makes you think she will?

I thought the same things, but didn't ask.

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[Dave-UK]

I am getting a new computer for my wife and it will be running Windows 7 64
bit.

I want to set it up so that she can turn it on and it will boot right to the
desktop and in addition I don't want her to get UAC messages when she uses
the installed programs on her computer such as Internet Explorer, Office and
her graphics programs.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

Thank you

Make sure there is only one account with no password and
adjust the UAC slider control to how you want it to perform.
,

 

[Gordon]

Make sure there is only one account with no password and adjust the UAC
slider control to how you want it to perform.

Eh? Using Office or IE should not cause ANY UAC pop-ups. Doesn't here in a
password-protected Standard user account.
Why would you advocate what you posted?

 

[Dave-UK]

Eh? Using Office or IE should not cause ANY UAC pop-ups. Doesn't here in a
password-protected Standard user account.
Why would you advocate what you posted?

I gave the OP the answer to his question. As he now knows that
the UAC control has a user-friendly slider setting he can adjust
it to his liking.

 

[Worn Out Retread]

You've thought about the security implications of this?

She is the only user other than myself and if someone steals the computer,
the password protection is easily bypassed by someone who knows how.

What makes you think she will?

Personal experience.

 

[Worn Out Retread]

Make sure there is only one account with no password and adjust the UAC
slider control to how you want it to perform.

Thank you.

 

[Gordon]

She is the only user other than myself and if someone steals the computer,
the password protection is easily bypassed by someone who knows how.

Personal experience.

Doesn't happen here. Didn't happen on Vista. The only time it might happen
is on an application that is not Vista or Win 7 compatible....

 

[Gordon]

She is the only user other than myself and if someone steals the computer,
the password protection is easily bypassed by someone who knows how.

So you have no visitors who might, in an idle moment start looking? You have
NO personal and sensitive data on the machine?

 

[Alex Clayton]

Make sure there is only one account with no password and adjust the UAC
slider control to how you want it to perform.
,

Where is this control? I only have one user on this new machine, me, and
there is no password. I would like to have the damn UAC quit popping up
every time I try to do something. It was doing it when I load stuff
directly from MS.

 

[Gordon]

Well it doesn't pop up here "everytime" I try to "do something" and I run a
Standard User account. What might you be trying to do?

 

[Alex Clayton]

Well it doesn't pop up here "everytime" I try to "do something" and I run
a Standard User account. What might you be trying to do?

When I put my MS office 07, when I put the MS security pack, today when I
loaded Live mail, when I loaded Fire fox it seems to constantly ask. I know
on the Vista machine I have I turned it off shortly after buying it, but
can't even remember now how I did it.
I had heard they had tweaked this feature in W7 because of so many people
doing what I did on my Vista, just turning it off.

 

[Alex Clayton]

When I put my MS office 07, when I put the MS security pack, today when I
loaded Live mail, when I loaded Fire fox it seems to constantly ask. I
know on the Vista machine I have I turned it off shortly after buying it,
but can't even remember now how I did it.
I had heard they had tweaked this feature in W7 because of so many people
doing what I did on my Vista, just turning it off.

I found the answer on my own here. I was reading mail and Firefox wanted to
add another add on. When UAC popped up I noticed it had a place to click to
see options and there was the slider. Dropped in down one notch, will see
what that does.

 

[Gordon]

When I put my MS office 07, when I put the MS security pack, today when I
loaded Live mail, when I loaded Fire fox it seems to constantly ask. I
know on the Vista machine I have I turned it off shortly after buying it,
but can't even remember now how I did it.
I had heard they had tweaked this feature in W7 because of so many people
doing what I did on my Vista, just turning it off.

Well I don't know what you are doing, or what might be strange about your
computer set-up - I use all those and the ONLY time I got UAC was on first
installing - that was that. I don't get it on running anything. At all.

 

[Dave-UK]

I found the answer on my own here. I was reading mail and Firefox wanted to add another add on.
When UAC popped up I noticed it had a place to click to see options and there was the slider.
Dropped in down one notch, will see what that does.

For when/if you want to adjust it again:
Control Panel > User Accounts and family Safety > User Accounts > Change UAC settings.

 

[Alex Clayton]

Well I don't know what you are doing, or what might be strange about your
computer set-up - I use all those and the ONLY time I got UAC was on first
installing - that was that. I don't get it on running anything. At all.

I found the slider. Firefox wanted to put an add on for Yahoo. When I said
yes the UAC popped up, and just before I said yes I noticed it had a line to
click on, that takes you to the slider. It was set in the middle, I dropped
it down one notch. Will see how it works now.

 

[Alex Clayton]

For when/if you want to adjust it again:
Control Panel > User Accounts and family Safety > User Accounts > Change
UAC settings.

Great, thanks. Now hopefully I can remember that if I want to change it
later. <G>

 

[Worn Out Retread]

So you have no visitors who might, in an idle moment start looking? You
have NO personal and sensitive data on the machine?

Logon passwords are easily passed by if you know how.

 

[Gordon]

Logon passwords are easily passed by if you know how.

Absolutely. I'm not talking about someone who might be carrying a password
cracker on a USB stick but someone who might casually "have a look"...
Secondly it makes it slightly more difficult for malware to insert itself if
the user is a) not logged on as an Administrator and b) has a passworded
user account...