I'm taking a poll - Are you running with UAC or have you disabled UAC?

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Well the problem is HOW it was implemented. Everybody is for better
security, but UAC is clumsy at best. Sadly, it really provides no real
security from hacker attacks or malicous software. That's illusion. It
does succeed in interferring with what YOU want do do on YOUR
computer.
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Agreed.


-Michael
 
There really isn't much difference, Scott. I tried to live with UAC, I can not.
I agree with your assessment, also. Microsoft has spent a lot of time on
this security feature, and unfortunately, many users will simply turn it off.
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You can or can't agree with my assessment.

Yes,. I know MS spent a lot of time on this. I saw an interesting
video on Channel 9 that partly covered this very subject. And it has
it's merits, but I still don't get why they went to this much trouble.

There is an easier way and it accomplishes the same thing.

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TBH it seems about the same. Apart from games such as Battlefield 2,
everything I run has been properly written as they should be, i.e don't
need to be an Administrator, so they don't ask..
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I have little problem with applications (once installed), but then
again I install a lot of software. :-)

But that's not my main issue. My main issue comes down to things like
moving files, permissions and such.

All I should have to do is be told this is an admin function, enter my
password and be done with it. UAC does not need to appear in any of
this.

The password prompt is enough. It's kept Linux/Unix/OS X quite secure
for quite some time now.

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
 
I like UAC and internet explorer's protected mode. It gives me a warm, cozy
feeling inside.

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Yes, it's been re-enabled recently. I disabled it when I was reinstalling
all my software after installing vista for nothing else but sanity, but now
that most of my software has been reinstalled it's been turned back on.
 
Well, I try to use it the way it SHOULD have been implemented. I
disable the Elevation prompts when I have a number of administrative
tasks that I am working on, and I enable them the rest of the time.

Sadly it didn't occur to Microsoft to provide this obvious and much
needed mode of operation.

WORSE, they implemented it in such a way that the user who should have
the most security (an Admin user) doesn't get prompted for their
password to perform heavy duty admin tasks. So basically UAC in Vista
is a really annoying set of clicky boxes that don't add any real
security to the OS.

Microsoft reminds me so much of a bad puppy. You can show them the
right way to do things, and smack them on the nose when they do the
wrong thing, but they will still pee on your carpet when you think you
have them house trained.
 
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