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Installed Vista a few weeks ago and I really like it. I hope to write a series of posts over the next few months going through some of the feature I like the most.
However, one feature I like the least is the flickering and dimming that occurs when the "elevation prompt" appears. This is a little dialog box that asks for your permission before some admin task is allowed to go through. I personally know what I am doing on my computer and don't care much for it but I also don't mind it that much... However, I really don't care for the side effects of this feature in RC1.
The good news is that there is at least 4 ways of disabling it. Tim Sneath discusses how the best way to disable the dialogs is literally to just disable those dialogs, but not the UAC feature.
I originally used the Group Policy Settings to make the change, but I think the msconfig option is probably the easiest.
I'll turn it back on on the RTM build and see if things improved. But for now it's off.