UAC in Vista

zaza

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zaza

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What on earth is the point of this damn thing? Obviously I've switched it off, but man, it just seems like a very annoying and useless pile of crap. Maybe there's a good point to it? ...
 
"You have just moved your mouse 10 pixels to the right"
"Are you sure you want to do this?"
"You have just moved your mouse 10 pixels up"
"Are you sure you want do do this?"

:D
 
exactly.. what a joke, and what about the people who aren't aware enough to go into the control panel and switch the damn thing off? God help them.
 
zaza said:
exactly.. what a joke, and what about the people who aren't aware enough to go into the control panel and switch the damn thing off? God help them.
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If they aren't aware enough to do something that simple then perhaps it is best left on.
 
NathanE said:
Why is it always the people that need the extra security also the first ones to turn it off? :confused:
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Because those people were perfectly fine on XP and don't need such a feature on Vista :)

I myself turned it off after the first 17 popups asking for permission to do simple administrative tasks.

I guess it's a useful tool for normal users but power users will find it an offensive tool >_<
 
Immediately turned UAC off on my test rig. Damned annoying thing.

I can just see people getting fed up with it and hitting OK without even looking at whats going on tbh.
 
It's good for a user that aint got a clue whats lurking in the background. I turned it off but I think there should be a security feature to ALLOW certain programs through so when you launch the program it won't ask you if you want to run it e.t.c.
 
Its a complete joke and theres a bug relating to sharing network printers where if you have UAC turned off you cant instal printer drivers accross the network, so unfortunately I have to leave it on.
 
Its dangerous.

To pop up even normal trusted programs and basic stuff, people are going to just click through the warnings and ignore genuine security issues when they occur thinking its vista being OTT again.
 
zen62619 said:
It's good for a user that aint got a clue whats lurking in the background. I turned it off but I think there should be a security feature to ALLOW certain programs through so when you launch the program it won't ask you if you want to run it e.t.c.
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This is, in my opinion, exactly the problem.

I've left UAC running, and I got used to it.

What would be handy though, is the ability to, as you mentioned, add programs to a UAC safelist, so after you've run and confirmed you want to run the first time, it lets it get on with it.

I guess the problem is, when you introduce a feature like that, malware that it's attempting to prevent, could possibly find a way to add itself to this whitelist, rendering it useless.

I do appreciate some elements of it though, such as making you confirm changes in program files dir. 8 out of 10 (probably more like 9) of calls I get, are from people who've allowed bloody spyware into their systems. As I see it, UAC should block that, or at least, pop up a seemingly random "Are you sure" message when it tries to install itself.

This is why UAC is useful. Once you're used to clicking certain things, and having it confirm you want to do it, if it just popped up on its own one day, when you hadn't just clicked an exe, or tried to delete something etc.. then you'd know something dodgy was going on.

Depends on peoples levels of compentance, of course.
For these people who keep getting spyware infections on their systems, it could be a godsend.

V1N.
 
V1N said:
What would be handy though, is the ability to, as you mentioned, add programs to a UAC safelist, so after you've run and confirmed you want to run the first time, it lets it get on with it.

V1N.
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Now to me, even though I don't have Vista, that sounds like a sensible option. Just like I guess in your browser you can be alerted for every cookie. Once it's been accepted or declined you are never asked again for it. Makes sense.
 
I really really hate it. Ive had to turn it back on to install a couple of programs, but instantly goes back in the bin when ive done it. Its THE MOST irritating thing that was ever on an OS.
 
Theres a difference between security and UAC. They have swung it too far in the opposite direction. Imagine having a key for EVERY door in your house, so everytime you need to go to the toilet, you have to get your key out and unlock every door you need to go through which then locks behind you.
 
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