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User Access Control is Microsoft’s way of dimming the monitor and sending a pop up message to notify you that something is being changed in your computers configuration. This can get annoying. So, turn it off.

Set the Control Panel to Small Icons. If you need a quick idea of how to do this, see Set Control Panel View.

Choose User Accounts (Icons will be in alphabetical order after setting the control panel view to Small Icons)

Control Panel User Account Settings

Click on Change User Account Control settings

This is the default: Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer

UAC Default

To Turn off the pop ups that occur each time you make a change to your computer slide the bar down to Never Notify

UAC Never Notify

That will keep the screen from dimming and the pop up displaying that wants you to make sure you know something is being changed.

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