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If there's one thing that those of us who have to change Windows settings all the time hate, it's anything that unnecessarily slows us down. Perhaps the pinnacle of this was reached with the release of Vista, as Microsoft added User Account Control to the product. For those of you not familiar with this little pest by name (to be fair, it's probably something smart to have for the average user, but developers aren't average users), it is the source of that nagging little dialog box that pops up in Vista and Windows Server 2008 whever you do so much as think about changing a system setting. You can have two dialogs pop up to warn you about the dangers of changing some setting, but UAC is still going to show up and ask if you really authorized that change.