Completely disable UAC in Windows 10

When I was running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit, I had UAC disabled and everything was working smoothly for me. Now I've updated to Windows 10 Pro 32-bit (and recently also the 2015-11 update), I'm having a few issues. Although I have UAC set to "Never notify" in Control Panel, I find that certain activities are still fettered by UAC. For example, Windows Explorer doesn't let me create a file in certain folders, such as C:.

I use the Command Prompt quite a lot. In Windows 7, with UAC turned to "Never notify", Command Prompt automatically started as Administrator; whereas under Windows 10 I have to explicitly right-click and choose "Run as Administrator". More annoyingly, when I connect to the Windows 10 machine from another PC, using NET USE with my username for the target machine, I don't have access to do anything in folders that need admin access. I haven't found a workaround for this.

Is there a way to completely turn off UAC in Windows 10, so that I can do all admin tasks easily?

Klitos Kyriacou

Posted 2015-12-15T15:17:00.537

Reputation: 462

@PatrickR. I agree with you in general, but there are some specific circumstances where I know what I'm doing (and not using unknown third-party software), when I the UAC just gets in the way. Take the network drive stuff mentioned in my question, for example. Another thing where UAC gets in the way is when running a batch script - one I've written myself, so I know it's not malicious. If it contains a loop, I don't want to have to press OK repeatedly (thousands of times). I could run it as Administrator, but not if it's being run as part of a file association. – Klitos Kyriacou – 2015-12-15T15:56:40.187

Answers

I found the answer myself.

WARNING: This is not generally recommended as it compromises system security. Only do this if you know what you are doing.

Using the Control Panel UAC setting only does half the job. To turn off UAC completely, go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

and change the value EnableLUA to 0.

Do what you need to do, and then set it back to 1 to avoid endangering system security for too long.

Klitos Kyriacou

Posted 2015-12-15T15:17:00.537

Reputation: 462

Doesn't work anymore, tested on Windows 10 version 1803, OS build 17134.165 – Rex – 2018-07-23T13:40:30.383

This registry settings work in Windows 10. Copy the next section in notepad, save it with .reg extension, and double click it to merge.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin"=dword:0
"EnableLUA"=dword:1
"PromptOnSecureDesktop"=dword:0

Further details::

Biswapriyo

Posted 2015-12-15T15:17:00.537

Reputation: 6 640