A Fresh Look at Vista's User Account Control

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday May 4, 2006 @08:10AM from the let-me-in dept.

Art Grimm writes to mention a post at Ed Bott's Microsoft Report on ZDNet. There, he talks about Vista's User Account Control, and the issues he sees with the setup as it exists now. From the article: "The UAC prompts I depicted in the first post are those that appear when you install a program, when you run a program that requires access to sensitive locations, or when you configure a Windows setting that affects all users. But as many beta testers have discovered, UAC prompts can also show up when you perform seemingly innocent file operations on drives formatted using NTFS. In this post, I explain why these prompts appear and why some so-called Windows experts miss the obvious reason (and the obvious fix)."

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Re:How annoying by kimvette · 2006-05-04 08:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That was not flamebait either, off-topic at worst. We can continue this until you run out of mod points.

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Re:finally by wandazulu · 2006-05-04 09:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sorry 'bout that; the first sentence in the paragraph refered to OSX so I thought that's what you were talking about.
Re:finally by MyDixieWrecked · 2006-05-04 09:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

yeah, I just reread that post and it's completely unclear. sometimes I wonder if I was high or something when I posted some things.

I need a nap.

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