Have you gone numb responding to the request pictured above?  This security feature built into Vista and Windows 7 is meant to keep your PC “safe”, but it is more likely to drive you insane.  You can make it stop!

Yes, you will get a foreboding message about putting your PC at risk.  The UAC is built to prevent low level executables from running; say you go to a website that is infected and it tries to auto launch a file in the background of your processes, the UAC would give you a chance to catch and block it.  It is likely you have an anti-virus running, whose primary job is to do this anyway.  UAC gives you a second chance; it offers redundancy.  It is a personal choice to disable the UAC.

I posted how to disable the UAC feature on Vista in an earlier post, but for those of you running the vast improved Windows 7, I offer you this detail description of how to keep these pop-ups from constantly interrupting your work flow.

4 Ways to Make UAC Less Annoying on Windows 7 / Vista