About the Tips and Tweaks, what do I lose?

I don't know if its better to have indexing on or off. I tried searching in start > search and it was a lot slower, almost thought it wasn't working anymore.

Negatives to turning off UAC?

And, well, I guess that's it, i'm too unsure about the other things to try them.

 

I have indexing off but UAC enabled.UAC should be enabled, imo. Indexing seems the same to me, on or off.

 

Searching slow for me and I don't know any better performance.

UAC seems a little slow sometimes and just pops up too much. Also, it's not letting RM clock, which I use to undervolt, actually be a start up program, it always prompts me to allow it or not.

 

You can set it to run at startup with highest privileges using Task Scheduler

 

Yeah, i tried, it still prompted to do so. I went to task scheduler > create task

gave it a title, check marked highest priviliges -> run at start up -> run program from c:/program files(x86)/RMClock ...etc.exe

Still didn't work.

 

You restarted the computer? Did it run? If you had it loading at startup before, you need to remove whatever was running it (e.g. startup folder).

You can also test the task from Task Scheduler. Right-click the task and do "Run".

If you want a shortcut to run it on demand without the UAC prompt, see here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=436&page=4

 

why is disabling UAC a bad idea? i thought all it does is ask if you want to run a program that you are going to anyway? does it do anything else?

 

UAC is about privilege management. You don't need to give permission to run programs. You need to give permission to run programs that require administrator privileges. That way, non-approved programs can't modify the OS itself... so exploits such as buffer overflows, etc. can't compromise OS integrity. It's explained in more detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control

Of course you can change privilege modes without UAC by using multiple user accounts and the Switch User feature, just as you could in Windows XP... but this is much more inconvenient than clicking Continue on occasional UAC prompts for the programs which need admin privileges.

There have been plenty of UAC debates on here and I'm not anxious to start another one. Like a lot of things, it's a security/convenience tradeoff. Leaving UAC on but "whitelisting" one or two programs (which was the topic of this thread) is a compromise that some people may want to pursue.

If the security advantages of running most programs in a restricted-privilege mode don't interest you, then go ahead and turn off UAC entirely.

 

erm ok, the UAC did annoy me as a new vista user, but i am going to enable it again to see how things go.

 

My Dads laptop got ruined by Virus with UAC enabled.

It does little to actually secure your OS from threats... it gives u a false sense of security.

DISABLE UAC imo... u dont wanna waste your life allowing a program.

I have never used UAC since the first day of my Vista life... never got infected with any Virus.


If u wanna have a false sense of security and waste half of your productive life clicking on 'allow' then go ahead.

 

To me, UAC isn't a big deal. I'm used to clicking the popup that comes now.

 

Be aware that any time you turn UAC on or off, you also affect the virtualization of the Program Files directory as well. With UAC on all application reads and writes to the Program Files directory get redirected to "ProgramData" and each user login to Vista gets its own "ProgramData" directory. This allows each user to keep their own application preferences, games in progress etc. The same is true of the registry. Apps that write data there get virtualized to a user specific instance of their registry section.

So if you turn UAC off, it may look like some of your settings or saved games are gone. (They aren't gone, they are still in the ProgramData directory, or the user specific registry section.) Likewise if you turn it back on some of your settings may SEEM to disappear.

Just a simple "heads up" before you panic after making a switch to UAC. (Which I HIGHLY recommend should ALWAYS be on.)

Gary

 

I agree UAC should be left on, but I disagree that we should keep it enabled because Microsoft advises us to...If I did everything Microsoft wants me to do, I might be insane by now.

 

I've already had these conversations

 

Gary is correct...
In my experiences in Windows Vista and XP. UAC prevents most of the worms to get through, Please read this.

I always recommend that UAC is on... Sometimes you need to look for the long term. This is a good feature that will prevent (but not all) you to have a virus.

Be Vigilant always... most of the times, these viruses are intelligent enough to get through especially the NEW ones...

some viruses was created by the hackers to get through your firewall and because of UAC, Protected Mode of IE, they have a difficulty in doing that.
BUT it still possible.

How to make a 99.999999% secure PC? Don't install any softwares + Turn UAC on + Install windows Updates + Don't install any Add-ons (Adobe Flash, Acrobat Reader...) + Don't Connect to Internet

That's it.

Problem? It's a Useless PC

 

Don't connect it to the internet either! The internet is a huge security hazard.

 

haha... ok that's correct and let's change it to 99.999999%