Windows 8 Adoption Poor
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Still ignoring all the other articles though aren't we. It was kind of rebutted as soon as it was posted by many off us.
Have you even looked at 8.1 plenty of videos on youtube of leaked builds and seen these "U-turns"
There is so much guff on the net about win8 and sales. Unfortunately these things stick and very much influences the market, we've seen these effects before and well see it again. Purely because people are so hevaily influenced on aubjects they haven't really looked into.
Have you even looked at 8.1 plenty of videos on youtube of leaked builds and seen these "U-turns"
There is so much guff on the net about win8 and sales. Unfortunately these things stick and very much influences the market, we've seen these effects before and well see it again. Purely because people are so hevaily influenced on aubjects they haven't really looked into.
Despite apparently reading BBC and other articles, you still seem to think they're bringing back the old start menu. Dispite it just being a visual clue, as explained a few times, search boxes are making a come back, as is an icon for all apps.
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I've gone back to Windows 7 for the second time. I've had nothing but problems with Windows 8 over the months. Maybe I'll switch at 8.2.
I hate UAC and when it's off it's not "off off"
I hate UAC and when it's off it's not "off off"
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It's quite refreshing reading the views of someone 50. That and the fact most forums are usually with people 25 and below.
Heh, with no shame.
Out come the keyboard warriors?
When has an operating system ever been perfect? what is the definition of perfect? you learn to make do with what you have. Or you go batty.
Vista has been the worst OS when it comes to speed and functionality. If you left it idling for 2 minutes the hard drive would go into turmoil. Grind, grind and grind. Not good to have in a bedroom or anywhere to sleep. My god, Vista would grind away for endless hours. I used to think I was getting hacked the first few weeks I used Vista. I originally had Vista on a AMD X2 4600+ with 2GB DDR PC3500.
If you had a folder full of exe's or heavy files, my god, watch explorer with the endless (not responding) windows. As well as the slow network problems. File transferring nightmares! Nothing crashed but my god, things were slow. Buggy slow. You never knew when some things would complete.
Vista never got better for me until Service Pack 2. But it still never was silky smooth like Windows 7 and 8. It didn't seem to make much difference when it was on a hex core with 8GB DDR3. It was still clunky.
Driver Heaven was full of it. ATi nightmare.
Why do you need it to be off anyway?
To completely disable UAC you have to change the values in the registry it's another bug in win 8.
You could try this .. type secpol.msc in the search then Double click on Local Policies then double click on Security Options
then find "User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin approval mode."
Set it to disabled press OK then reboot. This should work in win 8.
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I can never understand why some people want it off,UAC is a security feature and has improved a lot since Vista days ie less nagging in Win7 and 8 compared to Vista so personally I would leave it on,this is what I mean by minor moaning by some users
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I can never understand why some people want it off,UAC is a security feature and has improved a lot since Vista days ie less nagging in Win7 and 8 compared to Vista so personally I would leave it on,this is what I mean by minor moaning by some users
Ignorance.
I can never understand why some people want it off,UAC is a security feature and has improved a lot since Vista days ie less nagging in Win7 and 8 compared to Vista so personally I would leave it on,this is what I mean by minor moaning by some users
Been proven many many times that you can get around it easy and UAC is a pita and does not need to be on.
I've never had it on since win 7 beta and never had a problem. If you want to take control of win 8
then type in secpol.msc in the search bar BUT don't do this if you don't know what your doing.
I know how to disable it but that's besides the point,UAC is another layer of security so I leave it on,does not bother me in the slightest being enabled ,bottomline its better on then disabled.
Its like those that don't use anti-virus,having one helps ie another layer of security.
With respect I disagree,why make it easy for them,might as well turn everything off and let them hack you if thats' the way you think,personally I like added layers of security especially if its free and I won't make it easy for anybody regardless.
Good read here based on Vista UAC but covers it all , http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/2007.09.securitywatch.aspx .
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The only reason to keep UAC on is that if you use the Metro apps, because if you turn it off they won't work.
A very small script can\will turn off UAC(Windows Script Host) I've never had it on, it's a pita, never had a problem.
A very small script can\will turn off UAC(Windows Script Host) I've never had it on, it's a pita, never had a problem.
UAC is not a security boundary. And yes, it does need to be on by default.
No, it hasn't.
Malware with user privileges is much easier to remove than a root kit with system privileges.