Anyone know how to turn off the lame User Account Control switch for Photoshop? Whenever I try to open a PSD file (even from Bridge), I get the annoying Vista warning window asking me if I really want to open the file.

Anyone know?

Go to Control Panel>User Accounts>Turn User Account Control On or Off. Uncheck UAC checkbox.

Sorry,...keep the UAC as that shouldn't affect opening an image file. It sounds like you need to allow admin privileges to the drive / folder that contains your images.

You'll have to google it - maybe ask on the vistax64.com forum as they'll have tutorials on this issue.

Try the UAC first. I test software with Vista and it's not only annoying, it interferes with certain automated tasks and has to be turned off.

Welcome to Vista. Instead of fixing security holes Microsoft spackled over
them with UAC instead. Turn it off. For Windows Vista 32-bit you can
download Tweak UAC (google it) for free and turn it off easier than looking
through Windows for a way. I don't know if it will work with 64-bit Vista or
if there is one for it. Google it.

Robert

So lame. Thanks for your help. Or rather, thanks for the re-clarification of what I already knew: that Microsoft is suxx0rz.

Yeah, it works with 64 bit Vista.

I would have a an of worms instead of a bona fide test if I couldn't!

You are getting that UAC popup because 1) your Vista login id has
administrator rights, and 2) you are trying to access a file to which you
don't have access except through the administor rights.

The real question is why you don't have non-administrator access to those
files. With proper permissions set, you won't get the popup. You are much
better off establishing the proper file permissions than turning off UAC.
Since you are running as an administrator, turning off UAC will allow
malware to pretty much do as it pleases with no warning to you. Lame?
Hardly!

Robert - good point. But I'm a little confused. I'm the only one who uses this computer so I naturally log in as administrator. In order to not get the popup when I open it with PS, are you saying I should turn OFF administrator settings for Photoshop.exe? Or should I create a new user (for myself) without Administrator rights?

Thanks
Ed

Well the risk of turning UAC completely off is if you accidentally click
on the wrong link or a bad .rar file, you're pretty much toast.




like the doctor famously said to the guy with the pain in the shoulder when he reached back behind his head:

"don't do that."