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A Fresh Look at Vista's User Account Control

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. do7l by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    be fun. It ^used

  2. Re:How annoying by eln · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't complain about moderations on your own posts, n00b (I know, you had a double-digit account number but you lost the password). You're only making yourself look like a whiner, and the most common outcome is that your complaint will get modded down along with your original post (as well as my reply).

  3. Re:How annoying by kimvette · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, my first account was a seven-digit number. *shrug* And as far as my complaint getting modded down, that would be well-deserved, but my comment about the article should not have been modded flamebait, because it was NOT flamebait.

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  4. Re:How annoying by kimvette · · 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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  6. Re:How annoying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't complain about moderations on your own posts, n00b

    You complete and utter tosspot. I've haven't seen such a sterling example of Slashdot condescension in almost five years. Bravo!

  7. Stop with th microsoft crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Every day I come to slashdot hoping to read something good,but all I see is microsoft bull shit.Every fucking day microsoft this,microsoft that.Oh,did you hear about the new internet explorer icon in vista?Fucking bull shit.

  8. Re:finally by wandazulu · · 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.

  9. Re:finally by MyDixieWrecked · · 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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