To disable the Secure Desktop in UAC elevation prompts in Windows Vista you had to go through group policy editor and dig into several nodes to find it, Windows 7 changes this by making it part of the UAC settings. In Windows 7 you can get to it by…
- Start > type in “UAC”
- Select “Change User Account Control settings
- By default the slider would be at “Default – Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer”
- To disable the Secure Desktop for elevation prompts move this slider down one so you see “Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer (do not dim my computer)”
