CS4-64bit in Vista - Keep getting "User Account Control" popup whenever I open a file! Argh

Question

Anyone know how to turn off the lame User Account Control switch for Photoshop? Whenever I try to open a PSD file (even from Bridge), I get the annoying Vista warning window asking me if I really want to open the file.
Anyone know?

Answer 1

"I'm the only one who uses this computer so I naturally log in as
administrator. In order to not get the popup when I open it with PS, are you
saying I should turn OFF administrator settings for Photoshop.exe? Or should
I create a new user (for myself) without Administrator rights?"
Neither. If you create a new user without Administrator rights, you won't
get the popup, but you may not be able to access the file because of the
file permissions. The thing to do is find out what's denying you access to
the files and correct the problem.
To start, use Windows Explorer to locate one of the PSD files you get the
popup with. Right click on the file name and select "properties". The
properties dialog box will have a "security" tab. Select it. At the top,
there is a box labeled "Group or user names". That contains a list that
normally would contain 4 entries. "System", the creator of the file,
"Administrators", and "Users". You could have more or less entries than
that. Click on each entry in turn and the permissions for that group will
be shown in the permisions box at the bottom. Normally, the default is to
allow "Read & execute" for "Users" and full control for the owner, system
and administrators. Look for any that are marked "Deny". If the "Users"
group is missing and your id is not listed as the creator, that could also
be cause of the UAC prompt.
Do you see anything obvious? It's really unusually for this, I'd be curious
to hear what you found.
At the bottom of the security tab there is an Advanced button. Click it and
under the permission tab, it will show you where the file inherited its
properties. Permission are inherited, depending on what needs to be
changed, if you make the correction at the right level, you may be able to
correct the access problems with one change. Click the owner tab and you
can see or change the file owner. Some people just name themselves as owner.
There is quite a bit of information on how to assign and manage permissions
in the help file. Click on "managing permission entries" at the bottom to
access it. It's much to involved to go into detail here. Microsoft could
definitely have done a better job with the security documentation and the
user interface. Let's hope they do a better job with the next version of
Windows.
Turning off UAC is an easy out and you will not need to learn how to
establish permissions to stop the popup, but it will also allow a malware
process to make changes using your administrator rights without your
knowledge.
FYI, the first user defined after a clean install is assigned to the
administrator group by default. Subsequent users are not and are ordinary
users. If you are paranoid or just super careful you could create a second
ordinary user name for yourself as your normal account and reserve the
administrator id for maintenance and cleanup. I doubt many will do that.