Sam
I'm not taking it personal but there are times when I want to do something
and I don't want to be bothered by the UAC message. That said it appears
to
be disabled but it isn't. So, humor aside is there something I can do to
understand how to disable and then re-enable UAC when I feel it
appropriate.
Yes, but the disabling/enabling of UAC would be even more difficult and time
consuming than just leaving it enabled? It only takes one click to dismiss
the UAC prompt when it appears?
BTW, I find it humorous that a human would allow software to make
decisions
for him and be comfortable with those decisions all of the time.
This is a common misconception. UAC does 'NOT' make any decisions for you.
What UAC does is to inform you if a program tries to gain global,
unrestricted, access to your computer. UAC notifies you, puts the system in
a secure state, (Secure Desktop) and then it asks for 'YOUR' permission to
continue. UAC has no information on 'what' the program will do, 'YOU' must
make the decision, depending on whether or not you trust that program.
If you run with full administrator privileges a program can just silently
install and make any changes it wishes and you will never be aware of that
fact until the deed is done.
The real problem that we're facing is that the new security model for Vista
is requiring users to 'learn something new and do something different' to
enable them to operate more securely. Users are balking because they want to
'do things the way they have always done them'.