Using Vista with UAC disabled

[Vigilante]

Sadly Adobe has truly hosed every platform they got their hands into in the past 2 years.
Their product updates are huge resource hogs that seemingly accomplish less while wasting more time.
From an IT perspective we are looking for alternatives to any Adobe products this year.

Which programs are you talking about? It might be helpful to know what
they are.

BTW, in answer to your question ("Assuming normal security precautions are
taken on both systems is Vista with UAC disabled any less secure that
XP?"), the answer has to be a flat "no" -- after all, Vista has had
several aspects of itself shored up security-wise apart from UAC.

Thank you, that's good to know!

My programs which do not like Vista with UAC enabled include:

1. CoolEdit2000. This is an excellent audio wave editor originally published
by Syntrillium. Adobe acquired Syntrillium a few years ago and they have
turned CoolEdit200 into ghastly bloatware called Adobe Audition. I wish to
continue to use CoolEdit2000!
2. Dr.Tag. The best Tag Editor I have discovered published by Aspect-One
Media. http://www.drtag.de/en/
3. Slimserver published my Slimdevices Inc. now acquired by Logitec.
http://www.slimdevices.com/

Regrettably I think it will be some time before I am able to remove XP and
rely totally on Vista.

Malcolm H

 

[Guest]

Malcolm,

Here's what I've done... leave UAC enabled. It might be annoying for the
wife and kids, but I'd prefere they get all the dialogs. Completely disabling
UAC will remove not just UAC but security features in IE as well. So, I've
configured my admin account to "Elevate without prompting", which means that
UAC is ON, but my admin account that I run under (the first account you
created in Vista) automatically approves UAC without requiring my
intervention. I wrote up the steps required here:
http://www.paulspoerry.com/index.ph...-account-control-uac-only-for-administrators/