User Account Control (UAC) is a Windows security feature.

It helps your PC against malicious software intrusion and stops unauthorized changes.

Any app or action that requires administrative access must go through UAC, prompting consent from the user.

A Windows 11 PC

On Windows, you canconfigure the UAC security levels.

The UAC slider lets you select from four levels of notifications.

Heres what the slider levels in UAC configs mean and when to use them.

user account control slider

We dont recommend disabling UAC.

In addition, the prompt will not appear when you venture to make changes to your PC as well.

Note that modification to your registry entries involves risk.

user accounts control panel

Incorrect modifications can leave your system in a bootless state.

see to it tocreate a system restore pointbefore proceeding with the steps below.

confirm to fire up the command in the elevated Command Prompt to avoid any errors.

change user account control settings

So, see to it to re-enable UAC after you are done troubleshooting your system.

disable uac control panel

regitry editor modify enableLUA

regitry editor modify enableLUA value 0

disable-uac-command-prompt

group policy editor user account control

group policy editor user account control disabled