stopping all those permission requests

  • Thread starter Thread starter FireBrick
  • Start date Start date
F

FireBrick

One more issue and I will be done for the day.

As I'm the admin
and I'm the only user

How do I stop all those windows that ask if I do indeed want to start this
program or that one

please and thank you.
 
If you talked to a soldier about his bullet proof vest or his helmet, he
would probably tell you it was heavy and uncomfortable. You would find few
soldiers foolish enough to do without them. The UAC control is disabled in
User Accounts, with a simple checkbox. Go ahead, make a terrorist's day.

--
Please use the Communities guidelines when posting.
http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales/help/help_en-us.htm
Use the "Ratings" feature. It helps the new users.
Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Mark.Ferguson
 
One more issue and I will be done for the day.

As I'm the admin
and I'm the only user

How do I stop all those windows that ask if I do indeed want to start this
program or that one

please and thank you.
Click to expand...

Short answer: Turn of UAC and be happy again.

If you want to invest the time, take over control by making yourself
owner of your hard drives and changing permissions to allow full
access. I've explained it countless times already in greater detail.

This explains it as well as any other web site:

http://elegantcode.com/2008/04/07/changing-file-ownership-in-vista-and-longhorn/
 
FireBrick said:
One more issue and I will be done for the day.

As I'm the admin
and I'm the only user

How do I stop all those windows that ask if I do indeed want to start
this program or that one

please and thank you.
Click to expand...

You use this.

<http://www.computerperformance.co.u...a_Administrator_-_Super_User_(Hidden_Account)>

You turn UAC off period.

You use a tool.

<http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/...ac-or-disable-elevation-prompt-with-tweakuac/>


You leave it on at all times and deal with it.

The choice is yours to make.
 
If you talked to a soldier about his bullet proof vest or his helmet, he
would probably tell you it was heavy and uncomfortable. You would find few
soldiers foolish enough to do without them. The UAC control is disabled in
User Accounts, with a simple checkbox. Go ahead, make a terrorist's day.
Click to expand...

You should stick to your silly copy and paste replies. Sharing your
opinions makes you look even more foolish.

Your analogy is well, lame. Here's why:

While far from perfect a bullet proof vest actually stops some
projectiles or minimizes the potential damage. UAC does nothing but
NAG, by popping up a warning. Because it is such a president nag and
one that can't learn from it's past experiences most people either
quickly learn to turn off UAC or ignore the warning by developing a
reflex clicking through without thinking about it totally defeating
the intended purpose of UAC.

And oh, if you think UAC will stop a determined terrorist, I have a
bridge in New York on sale this week, let me know if you're interested
in making an offer.
 
You should stick to your silly copy and paste replies. Sharing your
opinions makes you look even more foolish.

Your analogy is well, lame. Here's why:

While far from perfect a bullet proof vest actually stops some
projectiles or minimizes the potential damage. UAC does nothing but
NAG, by popping up a warning. Because it is such a president nag and
one that can't learn from it's past experiences most people either
quickly learn to turn off UAC or ignore the warning by developing a
reflex clicking through without thinking about it totally defeating
the intended purpose of UAC.

And oh, if you think UAC will stop a determined terrorist, I have a
bridge in New York on sale this week, let me know if you're interested
in making an offer.
Click to expand...

So...its a bullet "resistant" vest.

If UAC is nothing but a nag...so is having to use sudo in ubuntu.
I should just login as root
 
Thanks
I dl th e 'tool' and best of both worlds
can turn it off when working and installing and turn it on when I need it.
thank you
 
FireBrick said:
Thanks
I dl th e 'tool' and best of both worlds
can turn it off when working and installing and turn it on when I need it.
thank you
Click to expand...

You are welcomed.
 
How do I stop all those windows that ask if I do indeed want to start this
program or that one
Click to expand...

Upgrade those applications to Vista-compatible ones.

If any program generates UAC prompts in normal use, it doesn't comply with
the XP programming guidelines (yep, XP, not Vista). Bearing in mind those
guidelines were published several years ago at the beginning of XP's life,
there is really no excuse for any program from the XP era (or later) failing
to comply.

The exception is programs which perform some specific administrative task,
which will always generate confirmation requests.

Remember: UAC prompts are little different from the elevation prompts in
Linux and Mac OS. If Vista detects that something is trying to mess around
with its guts, it says "are you sure?".

This is a good thing, and NOT something you should disable lightly.

SteveT
 
Go here and download this script, it will turn off the prompt, but will
keep UAC on.
Click to expand...

No, don't. UAC without the prompt is almost (not completely) worthless.
All this script does - in effect - is automatically answer 'Yes' to every
UAC prompt. What is the point of that?

SteveT
 
I wrote that script because a lot of users wanted a way to turn off the
prompt, but keep UAC on.
When you run the script it will tell you all it is doing is turning off the
prompt, not UAC.
It is their choice.

--
 
No, don't. UAC without the prompt is almost (not completely) worthless.
All this script does - in effect - is automatically answer 'Yes' to every
UAC prompt. What is the point of that?

SteveT
Click to expand...


The same point of clicking 'yes proceed' which is what everyone does
99.999% of the time every time UAC nags about something.

No point at all.

Actually surprising that many that should know better fall for this
Microsoft snake oil.

User Account Control has got to go down with other Microsoft flops
like BOB and Windows ME.
 
Ringmaster said:
The same point of clicking 'yes proceed' which is what everyone does
99.999% of the time every time UAC nags about something.
Click to expand...
(snip)

If it is nagging about something we are knowingly doing ourselves, then
that's how we should respond - and if we have proper protection installed,
then yes, we'll be clicking 'yes' 99% of the time. It's the other 1% that we
need to worry about, and rightly so.
LesleyO
 
(snip)

If it is nagging about something we are knowingly doing ourselves, then
that's how we should respond - and if we have proper protection installed,
then yes, we'll be clicking 'yes' 99% of the time. It's the other 1% that we
need to worry about, and rightly so.
LesleyO
Click to expand...

You need to worry about deleting some orphaned shortcut on your
desktop? Well duh, I've seen UAC nag about those and there is no way
under any condition that could ever be a security threat since a
shortcut can't be anything more that a pointer (link) to a file and if
the file no longer exists, (orphaned) what's the threat?

A better question would be what clowns at Microsoft programmed UAC to
bitch about such foolish things?

These clowns:

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/UAC-What-How-Why/

Amazing how many here are totally clueless about how Windows works or
more accurately doesn't.

Ever more amazing how some are quick to overlook Microsoft's many
blunders that infest every version of Windows ever released.

Humans. Very strange creatures. Some seem to enjoy putting up with
mediocre software riddled with bugs. I don't.

What is so glaringly wrong with UAC is IT DOES NOT LEARN. Therefore it
repeats nags about the same damn thing over and over again instead of
learning from past experience like SMART software should. Yes, such
technology exists and has been around since there were computers. I
guess the boys of Redmond never head of decision lists
 
.......and open a security hole a mile wide.
Click to expand...

Rules based firewalls have been around and have WORKED for decades. If
UAC would have implemented that methodology, it could be tolerated.
Like with most things Microsoft does, the concept isn't bad, it's the
implementation that sucks.
 
Ringmaster said:
Rules based firewalls have been around and have WORKED for decades. If
UAC would have implemented that methodology, it could be tolerated.
Like with most things Microsoft does, the concept isn't bad, it's the
implementation that sucks.
Click to expand...

That's not FW technology. That's snake-oil crap in personal FW(s) trying
to protect *you* from *you*. If you went into a FW and security NG and
posted this nonsense about how that snake-oil works in PFW(s), they
would cut you to pieces.

The technology you speak of has one glaring problem, which is the person
pointing and clicking with the mouse. If he or she doesn't know what
they are pointing and clicking to, then they are going to click away on
the security blanket not knowing what they are doing, which 99.9% of the
time that's what they do is click away. One must be aware of the
situation and most don't even know what the situation is about.

UAC is there either turn it on and use it or turn it off and don't use.
It's as simple as that.
 
The technology you speak of has one glaring problem, which is the person
pointing and clicking with the mouse.
Click to expand...

Well if some idiot like you is behind the mouse, you have a point.
 
Back
Top