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Most of the time, you are the one making the changes, which can make the

UAC box a bit annoying. But if that UAC dialog box ever appears by itself,
you’ll know something evil is afoot, and you’ll have the chance to shut it
down.

How you get past the UAC box—how you authenticate yourself—depends

on the kind of account you have:

If you’re an administrator, the UAC box generally doesn’t appear
at all. Even when you click a link marked with a icon, you

either blow right past it or get the simple “Yes/No” box shown at
top left in Figure 18-12.

If you’re a standard account holder, the UAC dialog box
requires the password (or sign-in PIN number) of an administrator
(Figure 18-12, top right). You’re supposed to call an administrator

over to your desk to indicate his permission to proceed by entering
his own name and password.

The UAC interruptions don’t come along nearly as often as they used to, in
earlier versions of Windows 10. But if even the few remaining interruptions
are too much for you, you can turn them off altogether. Open the menu.

Type uac; select Settings, and then hit “Change User Account Control
settings.”

You get the dialog box shown at bottom in Figure 18-12. If you drag the

slider all the way to the bottom, you won’t be interrupted by UAC boxes at
all.

This truly isn’t a good idea, though. You’re sending your PC right back to

the days of Windows XP, when any sneaky old malware could install itself
or change your system settings without your knowledge. Do this only on a

PC that’s not connected to a network or the internet, for example, or maybe
when you, the all-knowing system administrator, are trying to troubleshoot
and the UAC interruptions are slowing you down.