Do this instead of disabling UAC

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(looking at all posts above) Oh boy, and I thought *I* was UAC zealot LOL.

SS you should have mention in your original posts that tips you suggest turn
off two major features of UAC.

1. The consent prompt. Man, it's main purpose of UAC to warn user! Turning
that off basically means turning UAC off.

2. Secure Desktop. This is what protects UAC from being tricked by malware.
During UAC beta testing it became clear that you can write a program that
will agree to consent without your intervention by interacting with UAC
prompt thus circumventing UAC protection. Secure Desktop eliminates this
risk by limiting the ability to interact with UAC prompt to only console I/O
(keyboard/mouse). No other programs can access UAC pop-up window when SD is
on.
 
"...Mac truck..." LOL!
What are you, some freakin idiot??? Why are you telling people how to eliminate one of the layers of security in Vista??? Does it really bother you so much to have to acknowledge a few prompts??? Why don't you tell people that what they are doing is leaving a hole in their security big enough to drive a Mac truck through.

People, pay no attention to this moronic advise and do not disable UAC. The little bother it is to acknowledge a UAC prompt is nothing compared to the time it takes to fix a computer infested with malware, spyware, worms, trojans, and viruses.


Synapse Syndrome said:
I can't live with the UAC prompts, so I had it turned off. But I just came
across this tweak to keep UAC active while turning the prompts off.
Security Centre still reports that UAC is turned off, but it seems to be
working as you can see that IE7 runs in Protected Mode.

http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=84
Click to expand...


If you still want to be annoyed a bit, but not as much you could try this
one:
http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=107

ss.
 
Hmm... after reading the article and other's posts... don't think I would do
this. UAC bugged me in Beta and RC drops, but it's gotten better in RTM,
i.e., no 5 second black screens while waiting for the UAC dlg to pop. If UAC
offers me a higher level of security, then I'll deal with the dlg's. Far
better, IMHO, than having to rebuild my seat because it got trashed by a
trojan or virus or whatever.

I'd much rather see security handled by the OS. I read an article, sorry
don't have a link, forget the site but it was either PC Mag, or InfoWorld or
a site of that ilk... in which it was stated that AV programs fail more
often than they succeed at protecting PC's. Just downloaded and installed
Avast last night... when my subscriptions to SAV and McAffee run out,
they'll be replaced by Avast. Shoot, if all AV's do a less than stellar job
of protecting against threats, then why pay for one? But that's another
thread entirely...

Personally, I don't have a problem with the UAC dlgs. Not knocking you for
having a differing opinion on the matter, jes' throwing my two cents in...

Lang
 
While I don't feel quite as passionately about it as you do, I do agree UAC should be left on.

The problem then is, for most people, they will just click ok any time it prompts them anyway.

UAC works great for me at home because my grandkids and kids can't get past it; they have to get me and I'm able to make a reasonably intelligent determination about what to do. For most users, who are always running as administrator anyway, and then they try to install Kazaa and it prompts to install Gator as well, they're just going to click continue for every prompt that comes up. One bad decision is just going to lead to many more bad decisions. UAC, unfortunately, doesn't replace a thinking mind.

Dale
What are you, some freakin idiot??? Why are you telling people how to eliminate one of the layers of security in Vista??? Does it really bother you so much to have to acknowledge a few prompts??? Why don't you tell people that what they are doing is leaving a hole in their security big enough to drive a Mac truck through.

People, pay no attention to this moronic advise and do not disable UAC. The little bother it is to acknowledge a UAC prompt is nothing compared to the time it takes to fix a computer infested with malware, spyware, worms, trojans, and viruses.


Synapse Syndrome said:
I can't live with the UAC prompts, so I had it turned off. But I just came
across this tweak to keep UAC active while turning the prompts off.
Security Centre still reports that UAC is turned off, but it seems to be
working as you can see that IE7 runs in Protected Mode.

http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=84
Click to expand...


If you still want to be annoyed a bit, but not as much you could try this
one:
http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=107

ss.
 
I seconded that.

It is like a firewall program asks Internet access permission for every
service, program, and component, and sure it is well-intended, but terribly
implemented, which makes it a worthless piece of add-on.
 
UAC simply won't work without prompting the user. However, I believe it can
(and should) be made better by prompting in-line... instead of throwing up a
dialog, the UI inside of the program could act as the warning and consent.
 
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