Vista UAC (User Account Control) is an avoidable hassle:
You know all those popups that nag you to Continue asking you to "Allow" or "Cancel", especially when you've set the property on an application (like Mach3.exe) or it's shortcut to "Run as administrator"?
Well... there's a couple of better ways to go.
1) Log in as "Administrator"; When logged in as Administrator, and beware that logged in with an account that belongs to the "Administrators Group"
won't do, you'll never be nagged by UAC again! To do this you will 1st need to "enable" the Administrator user account as it is defaulted as "disabled", then set it's Password (recommended) and you're ready to log in as Administrator. Obviously, Administrator is a "local" account so if you're joined to a domain (not using a workgroup) you won't have access to your domain assets until you log back in with domain user account. Very few of us setup a domain so this should't be a problem.
Or...2) Disable Admin Approval Mode; This defeats the feature all together, which is kind of dramatic compared to the above. The article at this link explains all about it-
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/0d75f774-8514-4c9e-ac08-4c21f5c6c2d91033.mspx?mfr=true(Scroll down half the page and look for title "Disable Admin Approval Mode")
What is it? How it works and more is at that link too.
I like to use the 1st one, It has really simplified my use of Vista while running Mach3 and some other software I use while machining.
-Haik
Keywords: Run as administrator, Allow, Cancel