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I remember wehn I first tried Vista and hated it. After a little effort, I soon realised it was far superior to XP. I recommend that if people aren't comfortable with Vista, just set it up with an XP theme/layout and you'll be well away.
 
Is this another vista and xp trashing thread? People have their own opinions but I wish people would stop bantering on on here about something that clearly gets mentioned every single day since the release!

Privateer said:
I heard Microsoft are going to stop supporting XP, I hope they don't force Vista on people, i hate Vista.
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To the OP, they won't force it on you. You can still use XP once they stop support but any problems and then.. well...you may aswell upgrade.
 
nightmare99 said:
WTF could you be any more vague?

Just for the record I copied some text from word into excel just now and it didn't ask for my permission on Vista x64 btw :rolleyes:
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I've gotta admit, I've had a couple of occasions where its asked me for admin permission to paste something... minor bugbear tbh, my only issue with it now is that my onboard gfx blows and slows the whole thing down a bit.
 
VirtualAdept said:
I've gotta admit, I've had a couple of occasions where its asked me for admin permission to paste something... minor bugbear tbh, my only issue with it now is that my onboard gfx blows and slows the whole thing down a bit.
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Hello VirtualAdept, it will only ask you to elevate the privileges if you are moving things in specific locations i.e. "Program Files" or performing any other administrator task. You have to ask yourself the question, Would I want someone who is using my machine to be able to as freely as they like, start moving and deleting important system level folders but also having the ability to perform legitimate admin tasks myself? :)
 
Fire Wizard said:
Hello VirtualAdept, it will only ask you to elevate the privileges if you are moving things in specific locations i.e. "Program Files" or performing any other administrator task. You have to ask yourself the question, Would I want someone who is using my machine to be able to as freely as they like, start moving and deleting important system level folders but also having the ability to perform legitimate admin tasks myself? :)
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Just playing devils advocate really: if somebody is buggering about with important system files or folders then they probably have malicious intent and will simply click past the wretched UAC prompts anyway.....

I can see some value to UAC but I have it switched off. I haven't encountered any real malware in 10 years of PC ownership and I can't view UAC as anything other than an annoyance to the experienced user.

EDIT: I can't believe I responded to this thread - I thought it was the UAC poll thread. Well done to the OP troll. You got me.
 
Fire Wizard said:
Hello VirtualAdept, it will only ask you to elevate the privileges if you are moving things in specific locations i.e. "Program Files" or performing any other administrator task. You have to ask yourself the question, Would I want someone who is using my machine to be able to as freely as they like, start moving and deleting important system level folders but also having the ability to perform legitimate admin tasks myself? :)
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Oh, dont get me wrong, it was only a minor gripe. I certainly see the sense behind it.
 
Ratbag said:
Just playing devils advocate really: if somebody is buggering about with important system files or folders then they probably have malicious intent and will simply click past the wretched UAC prompts anyway.....
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Hi Ratbag, in the instance I was explaining, if someone was using my machine then they would be using a limited account which would mean, any tasks that requires administrative privileges would require them to enter the password of the administrator account which obviously they wouldn't know. :p

I can see some value to UAC but I have it switched off. I haven't encountered any real malware in 10 years of PC ownership and I can't view UAC as anything other than an annoyance to the experienced user.
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A common misconception behind User Account Control that it is only beneficial to non computer literate users which couldn't be further from the truth. It enables users to run as a standard user. Also, UAC hasn't got anything to do with malware protection.
 
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