UAC has been kinda useful (for me anyway) while upgrading Norton I about a
day where I was not protected except windows own. In this time someone sent
me an email which I opened (it was from a friend, he was trying to tell me
how unreliable Vista is) and the email happened to contain a virus he made,
a fairly harmless one but still. UAC came up telling me something wanted to
install, I said no as I didnt recognize it and no problem. The same guy
asked me the next day if i had any probs with my laptop, he was surprised
when i said no. UAC only takes 1 click and a decision, i have no problem
with that.

"csbfd" <csbfd@csbfd.com> wrote in message
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> "Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 15 May 2008 23:21:53 -0400, "C.B."
>> <notreallyc.b.mullen@windowslive.com> wrote:
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>>
>>> I rarely see the UAC prompt because I know how to configure my
>>> software. What's your excuse?
>>
>> That lame excuse again?
>>
>> OK smarty pants, explain how when I've took ownership of ALL my hard
>> drives and have full permission of everything the moronic UAC without
>> reason will at times pop up a warning when all I'm doing is trying to
>> delete a no longer wanted shortcut from my desktop or nags like a
>> mother-in-law if I want to delete a file, who never left the hard
>> drive where I was the only one that ever "owned" it.
>>
>> I'll wait. Knock yourself out.
>>
> Taken ownership, When you've taken ownership, not took.
>
> And the problem is taking ownership of everything isn't going to get rid
> of UAC. It pops up for a reason. Th reason is you don't have a clue as to
> what you're doing.
>