Here's how you can easily turn off the user account control (UAC) in Windows 7.

User Account Control, or UAC, is a security mechanism built into Windows. Here's how to change its protection level and whether you should disable it.

Control Panel There’s an easy-to-use slider-style option in Control Panel to disable User Account Control.

You already know how to disable User Account Control and its annoying prompts, but that method requires a restart.

As an administrator, UAC allows you to define user privileges. It is quite a formidable tool when there are multiple users using the same PC, but not when you are the sole administrator/user. In this ...

We don't recommend that you turn off User Account Control. But if you have to temporarily for whatever reason, be sure to re-enable it when you finish your task.

Windows Vista's User Account Control security "feature" - which I like to call Sir Obnoxious Naggy McNag - is bound to drive any power user batty within an hour of downloading, installing and ...