Turning off "User Account Control" in Windows Vista.

1. Press Start and click on Control Panel.

2. If your screen looks like this, click on User Accounts and Family Safety.

If your screen doesn't look like this, go to step 7 below.

3. Now click on User Accounts.

4. Now click Turn User Account Control on of off.

If asked to confirm, do so.

5. Now untick the box that says Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer and click OK
6. Now restart your computer.

7. You don't normally need this step -- you will only come here if you were directed here in step 2, above.

If your control panel looks like this, rather than the screen shown at step 2 above, click on User Accounts and then go to step 4 above.

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