Disable and Enable UAC in Command Prompt

Normally we never recommend disabling User Account Control (UAC) prompts--considering UAC actually does a great job blocking malicious software and people. However, we understand that in some situations UAC is better changed to temporarily disabled. For instance, disabling UAC before running software developments on a machine could help with automation. Manually disabling UAC before such a task and re-enabling it afterwards can be cumbersome. Luckily, just just adding the following commands to a script can speed things along.

Disable UAC:

%windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Enable UAC:

%windir%\System32\reg.exe ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System /v EnableLUA /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

If this is used in a script, the script of command prompt will need to be run as an administrator. Our suggestion is to create a script to do what you want, add disable UAC to the top of the script, and enable UAC at the bottom. That said, always remember to re-enable UAC.

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