"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
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> This isn't another rant. If you're sick of UAC nagging like your
> mother-in law you can begin to tame it and in the process at least
> partially fix one known Vista Bug.
>
> Interested?
>
> Click Start, then where it says 'start search' type in: secpol.msc.
>
> Caution! Proceed with caution, you're about to go on a journey deep
> into the bowels of the beast, hip boots and pain medication on standby
> highly recommended. Best to set a Restore point prior to messing
> around, but this is really a simple anybody can do fix.
>
> What you're looking at now is the Security Policy Editor. This
> controls much of what UAC nags about plus other things beyond the
> scope of this post. For now the big thing that bugs me and I'm sure a
> lot of you reading this is the useless nag screens before elevating to
> Administrator level.
>
> First expand the Local Policies folder, then the Security Options
> folder and take a big gulp. You may also wish to expand this window to
> full screen.
>
> What you should see is a Laundry List of Security Settings. If you
> have trouble with other issues it may be worth your time to check out
> other polices, like if you have problems with network printers and
> DCOM kind of things.
>
> Let get rid of some Nag Screens: scroll down the list until you get
> to:
>
> User Account Control: Behavior of the Elevation Prompt for
> Administrators.
>
> Note there are three options. The one you want is Elevate without
> prompting. This only gets rid of the nag screen (most of the time)
> while leaving UAC turned on to do other things which are helpful to
> overall security. Click on the Explain tab to learn more. Be sure to
> click on Apply then OK or the change won't take.
>
> There is a similar options for standard users that works in reverse
> where you can automatically block and just generate a access deny
> message instead I would NOT change that.
>
> Now the surprise benefit:
>
> As I commented on elsewhere this afternoon one annoying thing that's
> "broke" in Vista is when you copy or move files the progress bar
> doesn't always show progress till the very end after the file is
> already copied or moved. I only saw this behavior when moving large
> files, your milage may vary. Interested if others now get the correct
> reaction if they change their UAC setting like did.
>
> I have no idea why, but simply changing the UAC setting I just
> mentioned restores the progress bar to normal function...at least it
> did for me. Now it behaves much like in XP, showing a gradual progress
> bar and a real time remaing countdown as files get moved or copied.
> Its still off as far as showing how much time is remaining, way off as
> far as being accurate, but that was also broke in earlier versions of
> Windows.
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Well I'm glad to see you've finally discovered that. We'll make a UAC zealot
out of you yet ;-)

Interesting comments about the progress bar. Not noticed that.

--
Jon