Is there a way to disable UAC via a .bat?reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f


you can try the above..Don't you mean regedit.exe?no, reg.exe its the cmd.exe equivilant of regeditthanks.I think this is very unwise.

Slapshot, you are a beginner who has just asked how to copy files from one directory to another, and when told made two mistakes :-
1) you did not believe the answer would copy the CONTENTS of the directories, and
2) you did not even try it to see what happened
The first mistake is simply a matter of learning
The SECOND mistake shows you will always be a learner until you become a little more adventurous.

Those were my thoughts when I read that thread,
but I chose to be kind, and kept them to myself.

Slapshot, I now think you may have become far too adventurous.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and the registry is one of those areas.

If the UAC and registry suffer too much adjustment, repairing the damage might take enough threads to merit an ENTIRE FORUM to itself !!!

Are you sure you want to do this ?

Regards
Alan
lol thanks for your concern. i appreciate it however I am extremely experienced with computers, just not batch files/cmd commandsSorry I misjudged your level of competence.

You may well know more than me, in which case please consider this advice to genuine beginners who stumble across this thread and decide they want to play with the registry and/or UAC.

I NEVER depend upon a *.reg backup to repair damage I may inflict on the registry.

A *.reg backup is TOTALLY UNABLE to correct the registry if the Registry is badly damaged.
Whether *.reg can still do a repair via SAFE mode or the "RECOVERY CONSOLE" I do not know - I have been careful/fortunate to have never experienced this situation.

I generally do make a *.reg backup just in-case it might be helpful, BUT it can only be used to MERGE with the registry. This will ONLY correct changes made to "values", and restore any keys and values that were deleted. It will NOT remove any keys or values that have been added.

A *.HIV backup has a more powerful restoration capability - it can do all that *.reg can do, and in addition it will remove all the keys and values that have been added.
BUT with extra power comes extra disaster - I found that regedit does not know WHERE the *.hiv came from, and depends upon me to tell it. At that point my fears overcame my inquisitiveness and I cancelled. I strongly suspect that the wrong user input would give the wrong registry destination, and that Windows would fail to detect the user error and plant the *.hiv image in the wrong place and cause total confusion and destruction

I also suspect that a registry catastrophe would have the same problems for both *.reg and *.hiv - if SAFE mode or RECOVERY CONSOLE is needed for one, it will be needed for the other.

A Restore Point captures an image of the registry, after which the registry can be modified, after which restoring the system from that Restore Point" should undo the damage - IF YOU CAN REVERT TO THAT POINT. I have SEEN several posts in several forums where innocent users (not even registry dabblers) have wanted to neutralise a recent change, and have then discovered that Restore Points are greyed out and inactive, or available but "damaged" and have no effect.
System Restore and Restore Points are controlled by special keys in the registry.
If the registry gets trashed, perhaps System Restore will totally fail.

Personally, I take no needless risks and only venture into the registry if I really want some "extra" benefit,
and I do so in the confidence that my System start-up/ log-in has included a brand new ERUNT image of the registry, and Windows can use the ERUNT image to instantly repair the registry where ever a *.reg or *.hiv can repair it, AND if the registry is too badly trashed for Windows to work, ERUNT can mend the registry via RECOVERY CONSOLE.
N.B. Immediately before I make any "exciting" changes to the registry I spend 8 Seconds creating a brand new ERUNT image - not because I doubt what was created when I logged in, but because since then I may have altered the target of a TAB in xplorer2, or I may have asked COMODO to remember my decision upon permitting some action, and any one of many other applications may have also made changes to their registry keys since start-up, so if I use today's log-in image the "perfect" result will forget the subsequent things I wanted it to remember.

I depend upon ERUNT to mend my registry whenever it is broken.
I have never experienced sufficient damage to "need" ERUNT from RECOVERY CONSOLE, but many people have been rescued by ERUNT from total disaster.

A search on this site will give information on where to download ERUNT and how to use it

Regards
Alan
Sorry I misjudged your level of competence.

You may well know more than me, in which case please consider this advice to genuine beginners who stumble across this thread and decide they want to play with the registry and/or UAC.

I NEVER depend upon a *.reg backup to repair damage I may inflict on the registry.

A *.reg backup is TOTALLY UNABLE to correct the registry if the Registry is badly damaged.
Whether *.reg can still do a repair via SAFE mode or the "RECOVERY CONSOLE" I do not know - I have been careful/fortunate to have never experienced this situation.

I generally do make a *.reg backup just in-case it might be helpful, BUT it can only be used to MERGE with the registry. This will ONLY correct changes made to "values", and restore any keys and values that were deleted. It will NOT remove any keys or values that have been added.

A *.HIV backup has a more powerful restoration capability - it can do all that *.reg can do, and in addition it will remove all the keys and values that have been added.
BUT with extra power comes extra disaster - I found that regedit does not know WHERE the *.hiv came from, and depends upon me to tell it. At that point my fears overcame my inquisitiveness and I cancelled. I strongly suspect that the wrong user input would give the wrong registry destination, and that Windows would fail to detect the user error and plant the *.hiv image in the wrong place and cause total confusion and destruction

I also suspect that a registry catastrophe would have the same problems for both *.reg and *.hiv - if SAFE mode or RECOVERY CONSOLE is needed for one, it will be needed for the other.

A Restore Point captures an image of the registry, after which the registry can be modified, after which restoring the system from that Restore Point" should undo the damage - IF YOU CAN REVERT TO THAT POINT. I have seen several posts in several forums where innocent users (not even registry dabblers) have wanted to neutralise a recent change, and have then discovered that Restore Points are greyed out and inactive, or available but "damaged" and have no effect.
System Restore and Restore Points are controlled by special keys in the registry.
If the registry gets trashed, perhaps System Restore will totally fail.

Personally, I take no needless risks and only venture into the registry if I really want some "extra" benefit,
and I do so in the confidence that my System start-up/ log-in has included a brand new ERUNT image of the registry, and Windows can use the ERUNT image to instantly repair the registry where ever a *.reg or *.hiv can repair it, AND if the registry is too badly trashed for Windows to work, ERUNT can mend the registry via RECOVERY CONSOLE.
N.B. Immediately before I make any "exciting" changes to the registry I spend 8 Seconds creating a brand new ERUNT image - not because I doubt what was created when I logged in, but because since then I may have altered the target of a TAB in xplorer2, or I may have asked Comodo to remember my decision upon permitting some action, and any one of many other applications may have also made changes to their registry keys since start-up, so if I use today's log-in image the "perfect" result will forget the subsequent things I wanted it to remember.

I depend upon ERUNT to mend my registry whenever it is broken.
I have never experienced sufficient damage to "need" ERUNT from RECOVERY CONSOLE, but many people have been rescued by ERUNT from total disaster.

A search on this site will give information on where to download ERUNT and how to use it

Regards
Alan