regedit. I STILL get this ANNOYING PoS Prompt everytime I try to move/copy a file, install etc a program... what am I doing wrong? As far as UAC preventing virus intrusion -- it doesn't. A test was done just after Win 7 introduction with the ten latest viruses. Of the 10 -- 2 would not run on Win 7, not a great surprise because they would have been designed for XP or Vista. One raised a UAC prompt and the remaining 7 ran without raising a prompt. I have windows Vista Home Basic and I disabled UAC. Now I can't remove any programs nor install new ones. Also I can't enable the bugger. Isn't it weird that when it's disabled it still controls to certain extent what I can do. Can anyone advise how to turn it back on? can someone help me everytime i try to download something it says this policy is blocked by a group of people and i have tried every admin powers method plese someone help me (please tell me a method that is not blocked or impossible to block thank you I am a heavy user of the computer and very wary of virus and spyware, as such I prefer to leave this on and fully working, however once I install a program and it pops up the dialog window and I choose to continue it should stay that way. I have 3-4 programs I use that ask me every time I start them