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August 31, 2007
Disabling User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
In Windows Vista UAC is designed to make sure that you want to run things that could change things on you computer. Sometimes it causes issues with InstallShield, which is used to create the installations for our programs.
This FAQ entry shows how to disable UAC to allow our programs to install without errors.
- Click on Start, then on Control Panel.

- Click on User Accounts.

- Click on large-sized user accounts.

- Click on Turn User Account Control on or off. You will need to have an Administrator type account to do this.

- Check the Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer and click OK. You will be asked to restart the computer. Once this is done our programs will install properly.
- Once the program is installed, it is recommended to repeat these steps to enable UAC.
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