{"id":2378,"date":"2011-07-10T10:26:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T14:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2011-07-10T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T14:26:58","slug":"problems-with-screen-dimming-and-uac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/problems-with-screen-dimming-and-uac\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems with &#8220;Screen Dimming&#8221; and UAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before we go any further with this tip, you should  know that screen dimming during UAC prompts is part of Windows Secure Desktop.  This prevents malicious applications from mimicking a Windows UAC prompt and you  from mistakenly giving control of your computer to a malicious application. If  your system is well protected, you install all Windows patches and updates  promptly and you use good, safe computing practices, the chances of something  like that happening are remote. But we have to warn you anyway.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Windows 7 Instructions<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If your screen dims\/goes dark when the User Account  Control Window opens, there is sometimes a several second delay depending on  your system settings and resources. It can be mistaken for a frozen computer or  other problem. To turn off the screen dimming, but keep UAC protection, Windows  7 makes this very easy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click UAC in Search Box at Start menu<\/li>\n<li>Open the User Account Control Settings panel<\/li>\n<li>Move slider down to &#8220;Don&#8217;t dim the desktop&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/uac-dim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"524\" height=\"480\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Windows Vista Home Premium<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before proceeding with this tip, create a system  restore point. This tip involved editing the registry and by now, you all know  the scoop on that. You can do serious damage to your computer if you edit the  registry incorrectly. So make a restore point, just in case. If worst comes to  worst, you can go back to the point right before you did the registry edit &#8211; no  harm done.<\/p>\n<p>Type Regedit in the search form at the bottom of  the start menu. When the registry editor opens, navigate to the following  key:<\/p>\n<p>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System<\/p>\n<p>Right-click in the right pane and create a new  32-bit DWORD value called PromptOnSecureDesktop . Now set the value to 0.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll need to restart your computer for the change  to take effect.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using Windows Vista Professional or  Ultimate, you can use the Group Policy Editor to make this change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we go any further with this tip, you should know that screen dimming during UAC prompts is part of Windows Secure Desktop. This prevents malicious applications from mimicking a Windows UAC prompt and you from mistakenly giving control of your computer to a malicious application. If your system is well protected, you install all Windows patches and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/problems-with-screen-dimming-and-uac\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}