While I don't feel quite as passionately about it as you do, I do agree UAC should be left on.

The problem then is, for most people, they will just click ok any time it prompts them anyway.

UAC works great for me at home because my grandkids and kids can't get past it; they have to get me and I'm able to make a reasonably intelligent determination about what to do. For most users, who are always running as administrator anyway, and then they try to install Kazaa and it prompts to install Gator as well, they're just going to click continue for every prompt that comes up. One bad decision is just going to lead to many more bad decisions. UAC, unfortunately, doesn't replace a thinking mind.

Dale
"William" <woogles@charter.net> wrote in message news:%23wKiIW5JHHA.420@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
What are you, some freakin idiot??? Why are you telling people how to eliminate one of the layers of security in Vista??? Does it really bother you so much to have to acknowledge a few prompts??? Why don't you tell people that what they are doing is leaving a hole in their security big enough to drive a Mac truck through.

People, pay no attention to this moronic advise and do not disable UAC. The little bother it is to acknowledge a UAC prompt is nothing compared to the time it takes to fix a computer infested with malware, spyware, worms, trojans, and viruses.


"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message news:eblq5C3JHHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
news:eofw592JHHA.4068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I can't live with the UAC prompts, so I had it turned off. But I just came
>across this tweak to keep UAC active while turning the prompts off.
>Security Centre still reports that UAC is turned off, but it seems to be
>working as you can see that IE7 runs in Protected Mode.
>
> http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=84
>


If you still want to be annoyed a bit, but not as much you could try this
one:
http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=107

ss.

While I don't feel quite as passionately about it as you do, I do agree UAC should be left on.

The problem then is, for most people, they will just click ok any time it prompts them anyway.

UAC works great for me at home because my grandkids and kids can't get past it; they have to get me and I'm able to make a reasonably intelligent determination about what to do. For most users, who are always running as administrator anyway, and then they try to install Kazaa and it prompts to install Gator as well, they're just going to click continue for every prompt that comes up. One bad decision is just going to lead to many more bad decisions. UAC, unfortunately, doesn't replace a thinking mind.

Dale
"William" <woogles@charter.net> wrote in message news:%23wKiIW5JHHA.420@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
What are you, some freakin idiot??? Why are you telling people how to eliminate one of the layers of security in Vista??? Does it really bother you so much to have to acknowledge a few prompts??? Why don't you tell people that what they are doing is leaving a hole in their security big enough to drive a Mac truck through.

People, pay no attention to this moronic advise and do not disable UAC. The little bother it is to acknowledge a UAC prompt is nothing compared to the time it takes to fix a computer infested with malware, spyware, worms, trojans, and viruses.


"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message news:eblq5C3JHHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
news:eofw592JHHA.4068@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I can't live with the UAC prompts, so I had it turned off. But I just came
>across this tweak to keep UAC active while turning the prompts off.
>Security Centre still reports that UAC is turned off, but it seems to be
>working as you can see that IE7 runs in Protected Mode.
>
> http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=84
>


If you still want to be annoyed a bit, but not as much you could try this
one:
http://www.tweakvista.eu/show_tweak.php?tweak=107

ss.

I seconded that.

It is like a firewall program asks Internet access permission for every
service, program, and component, and sure it is well-intended, but terribly
implemented, which makes it a worthless piece of add-on.


"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:xn0evcrob1lixvk002@msnews.microsoft.com...
> On 24/12/2006 in message <tOyjh.23343$HV6.14341@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net>
> Brian W wrote:
>
>>It makes me laugh. People complained that XP wasn't secure enough, so when
>>Vista came along, people complain that UAC is annoying, so disable it!
>
> I found it a good idea but poorly implemented, perhaps it will be improved
> with SP1?
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines

I seconded that.

It is like a firewall program asks Internet access permission for every
service, program, and component, and sure it is well-intended, but terribly
implemented, which makes it a worthless piece of add-on.


"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:xn0evcrob1lixvk002@msnews.microsoft.com...
> On 24/12/2006 in message <tOyjh.23343$HV6.14341@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net>
> Brian W wrote:
>
>>It makes me laugh. People complained that XP wasn't secure enough, so when
>>Vista came along, people complain that UAC is annoying, so disable it!
>
> I found it a good idea but poorly implemented, perhaps it will be improved
> with SP1?
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines

UAC simply won't work without prompting the user. However, I believe it can
(and should) be made better by prompting in-line... instead of throwing up a
dialog, the UI inside of the program could act as the warning and consent.


--
- JB

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/

UAC simply won't work without prompting the user. However, I believe it can
(and should) be made better by prompting in-line... instead of throwing up a
dialog, the UI inside of the program could act as the warning and consent.


--
- JB

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/