KB ID 0001373
Problem
While doing some work for a client, I was constantly getting nagged by User Account Control prompts like so;
It’s been a while since I spoke about UAC, (and how to turn it off) see the link below;
Windows – How to Disable ‘User Account Control’
As I’ve said UAC is a good thing, it’s there for a reason, but in this case I was logged onto a clients domain servers, with an administrative account, doing administration! Every time I tried to open regedit, Active Directory Users and Computer, or even a command line window, I was getting prompted.
Solution
Even if you have disabled UAC, there are some times when it does not properly ‘go-away’. To make it stop you need to edit the following registry key;
Locate the ‘EnableLUA’ Value and change it to 0 (zero).
Reboot the server, problem solved
Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links
Thanks to Paul Sanderson for pointing this out to me.
