Windows Vista User Account Control Step by Step Guide
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/0d75f774-8514-4c9e-ac08-4c21f5c6c2d91033.mspx?mfr=true
HP Pavilion a1748x
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+
Windows Vista Home Premium
This is a new one week old system hat came loaded with Windows Vista... so I am stuck with trying to learn it. Beginning yesterday I started receiving excessive darkened screen with popup heading "User Account" and message "Program needs your permission to continue. If you started this program continue."
The popup messages occur in starting certain programs such as: Spybot Search & Destroy and others... this only started yesterday asking for permission when starting programs and Spybot worked perfectly until then. Also to uninstall certain programs requires the same permissions. Vista is really confusing and I cannot find how to change settings to prevent this constant nuisance. I feel it may be related to settings in the Control Panel>Security Center> At the bottom of Windows Security Center is "Other security settings". When the check is ticked and extended there is a section entitled "User Account Control" which indicates it is "On" and with a green dot. I am unable to turn it off as a test... mouse click does nothing.
Would appreciate comments from anyone having experience with this operating system and suggestions for solving the issue.
Glenn

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