Is UAC causing my screen to disappear when I click manage my compu

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I right click My Computer in the start menu and then click manage. Then my
screen goes to my desktop background for a second or two before coming back
with the Computer management UI.

Or is it my video driver.
 
What build of Vista?

Have you disabled UAC?
If so, what happens if you enable UAC?

"before coming back"
Back from what?
Are you starting from something else other than the Desktop?
 
Whenever you start an action that requres permissions you may see this
effect. If that is what you are describing it is the expected behavior.
The darkening is the Secure Desktop kicking in to prevent any process on
your computer from hijacking the administrator permissions when you OK the
UAC prompt.
 
Yes. UAC will make your screen blink or blank out, depending on -what- I'm
not sure. On this system, the screen blanks out for approximately 0.25
seconds before the UAC dlg is thrown and again after the continue or cancel
buttons are clicked. I'm running Vista Ultimate RTM on a Dell D820 laptop. I
can only assume that the video driver might have an impact on how long the
blank out is...

Lang
 
The blinkety blank thing is caused by the system switching from the user
desktop to the Secure Desktop so that malware cannot hijack the permissions
you give when you OK the UAC prompt.
 
Yeah, I know that from reading your other posts. ;-)

I'm getting the feeling that others might be seeing longer blinkety blanks
and maybe vid drivers could impact that... don't know... slower CPU's could,
for sure...

Lang
 
The video driver certainly plays a part in the length of the blank. The
blink is up to the user. :)
 
K... so then it becomes a matter or recategorizing this issue from
blinkety-blank to blankety-blank... love these technical terms!

Lang
 
So the blankin search engine is broke then because we all know that we have
seen blankety blank a half dozen time.

I already switched back to XP. The UAC, driver issues, version scam was
enough to make me start throwing things.

By Version scam I mean the lack of Remoted desktop in permium and then when
you upgrade to business to get it, you lose the media center functionality.
So in the end most power users have to fork out half a grand for an OS. More
than what a new computer can be bought for these days. That is pretty sad.

I leave my PCs running at home in case I need soemthing from them at work,
And then I remote in. Hopefully RealVNC works with Vista
 
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