Okay, so the UAC prompts are just too much for you and you feel you are smart enough that Windows shouldn’t ask your permission to do dangerous and potentially malicious stuff. But before you just outright turn UAC off (which I have laid out in an early post is a Bad Thing™ to do), you can actually change the behavior of UAC by editing your local policy settings (or through an AD GPO).
To edit the local policy of your machine, run “gpedit.msc” from the cmd prompt or the run command. First off, there are 9 UAC related security settings located under Computer Configuration->Windows Settings->Security Settings->Local Policies->Security Options. You will see them listed at the bottom of the right hand pane of the group policy editor at the bottom of the list (alphabetical order).
Of the 9 policy settings available, the one that will disable prompting is the setting labeled “User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode” when set to “Elevate without prompting”. Now, keep in mind, I would still say that it is not a good idea to disable prompting. However, at least in this scenario, IE protected mode will continue to function and applications that don’t request elevation (the majority of day to day apps) will continue to run with Least User Privileges which is a better scenario than just turning off UAC all together.
As for the other UAC options, you can peruse and read the policy descriptions in the “Explain Tab” on each policy setting.
