UAC lock up

[whterbtobj]

Whenever I start an action that should prompt the UAC window into popping up and asking me permission I enter in my admin credentials then the system locks up with the whole desktop grayed out untill I press Ctrl+Alt+Del. Does anyone know a solution to this problem?

This happens only on a user account.

If you're a member of the admin group. The system is set to only prompt and not prompt for credentials. If I set it to prompt for credential then the system will freeze and I cannot do any admin stuff.

[MagicAndre1981]

please tell us more about your specs (CPU, RAM, graphics card)

[whterbtobj]

Its a HP Compaq 6710b Notebook

Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2 GHz 4MB L2 Cache, 800 MHz FSB

Intel 965PM

1024 MB, DDR2 PC5300 667Mhz SDRAM, 1x 1024MB, max. 4096MB

INTEL GMA X3100 - 0 MB Clockrate Chip/VRAM: 200/200MHz

15.4 Zoll 16:10, 1280x800 pixel, WXGA TFT Display, glossy: no

120GB 5400rpm Seagate Momentus ST9120822AS

Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN, 10/100/1000 Gigabit LAN, 56K Modem, Bluetooth 2.0

Vista Business SP1

[MagicAndre1981]

please try to update your graphics card driver.

[cluberti]

It is a video card driver issue, and if a newer driver does not resolve the issue there is an option. It is less secure, but you *can* disable the secure desktop prompt - again, I would *not* recommend this for security reasons, but, if you can't use UAC otherwise it is better than disabling it by far.

[whterbtobj]

make sense, I'll give it a shot and get back to you guys, thanks.

[whterbtobj]

no updating video driver did not work. I also updated the bios as well but that didn't work either.

[whterbtobj]

For some reason it started working now. the only changed I made after the video and bios update was uninstall HP's embedded security.