Vista UAC getting on my nerves

LOL this has turned into a war, I agree with Rob41 its safe to turn off, almost anybody that is smart enough to even know where/how to turn it off is smart enough to live without it.

The kiddies and stuff that are not smart enough are also probably not smart enough to let it help them they are just gonna click "ok" for everything.

Let each have there own way, atleast it can be turned off if you do not like it. I must say my experience with Vista went from "not so good" to "not so bad" once I finally decided to turn UAC off.

Its not even so much just the prompts, its that the kind of work I do, I work with lots of programs that need admin rights and its annoying to remember to run them as admin manually when UAC is on. To many times here on the forums people are like "omg xxx program/game is not working in Vista and works fine in XP" and I say "Did you run as Admin" and after they try it, it works fine.

That has been the solution to 90% of the Vista problems I have had to help people with on the forums, with UAC off everything is run as admin. I also had a networking issue once that UAC was messing up saying I did not have admin rights even when logging into the computer under my Admin account.

 

I wouldn't say war, the fact that so much information is being shared and so many oppinions is great to be honest, i have learnt alot of new stuff.

There was only 1 occasion where i removed something i shouldn't have, UAC probably could have prevented that so i definately do think it has its uses.

 

OK, I'm not going to get my panties in a knot like you have.

I will say however, you shouldn't claim to know what someone else thinks!!!!

I never said UAC is a little popup screen. I am fully aware what UAC is and I am also fully aware that I and many others don't need it.

If you feel you need it then obviously you do! Great. No problem.

My system is well protected without UAC. I didn't get any virus before Vista with UAC and I haven't had one with Vista.

This isn't about UAC being right or wrong. Just like FF or IE isn't right or wrong. It's about perception and freedom of choice.

My god, what are the odds of that? I feel soooo lucky!

Chill out and relax man. Life is too short to freak out over a trivial software argument in an online forum.

 

Rob41,

My panties are not in a bunch. I just find it highly objectionable that folks who know about these sorts of things will come to a forum such as this that we all know has lots of folks without that sort of knowledge and then espouse an opinion that it is perfectly OK to operate a machine in a mode where EVERYTHING running on the machine has full admin rights. I've yet to see you present any sort of caveats to that idea. You just dig you heels in with an "I know what I am doing, it's perfectly safe" sort of comment, never bothering to point out to the less experienced in this forum the dangers that might exist if they were to mimic your actions.

Frankly I could care less what YOU do with your machine. My participation in these arguments is not to try to change YOUR mind. My participation in these is to make sure others know how stupid such actions are so they don't do the same.

Gary

 

Thread closed on request.

Also, for those that don't know, disabling UAC entirely is bad, since UAC is an important part of the Vista Operating System and manages a number of very important tasks (such as registry virtualisation). Since the developers at MS aren't stupid, it is possible to disable UAC prompts without disabling UAC entirely. To do so, go to Control Panel>Administration Tools>Local Security Policy>Local Policies>Security Options>User Account Control. And set "Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode" to Elevate without prompting". That will get rid of most future UAC permission prompts.