Microsoft Designed Vista's UAC to "Annoy Users"

[wonderlust]

http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+Designed+Vistas+UAC+to+Annoy+Users/article11464.htm

That explains a lot! :evil:

[mac124]

Switched mine off as soon as i could find the off button.

[wonderlust]

hasn't everybody?

[mac124]

Hmm possibly but i wasn't allowed to on my pc at work :(

[mlb07165]

I don't use vista so I didn't know about this UAC but it seems to me like it's for the people that don't know how to keep their computer in check.

When I get enough cash to start my new build I was going to order a copy of Vista Home Premium. Is vista really as bad as people make out? Am I better off sticking the good old XP.

[Lynx]

I do like vista, people are very negative about it for minor performance differences.

[wonderlust]

I bought Vista last year and have been running it ever since.

To me it seems no different in speed to XP, It is heavy on resources, IE is am just running IE with 3 tabs open, AV (avast) MSN and Skype and I am using 770Mb or ram.

Personally I would suggest at least 2Gb of Ram and a dual core processor to get the best from it.

[cleggypdc]

UAC isn't there for no reason, it's just the same as Linux's root user. If you want to change anything then you need to sudo.
I totally agree with what MS has done here, there are so many computer illiterate users.

[marsey99]

i turned it off on my machine but i put vista on my son machine as soon as i could because of it, do you know how many hours i have spent fixxing his xp due to him doing things he shouldnt?


uac=user annoyed constantly? :D

[wonderlust]

Lol, shame my father's (a sliver surfer) laptop isn't powerfull enough to run Vista.

would same me many hours of agro...

[cleggypdc]

i turned it off on my machine but i put vista on my son machine as soon as i could because of it, do you know how many hours i have spent fixxing his xp due to him doing things he shouldnt?

sounds to me like you need windows steadystate to keep him from changing things...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx

[marsey99]

if only i had known about that 12 months ago, thanks for the link i might use it if i put xp back on his pc.

[wonderlust]

Not come across that before, excellent link!

[cleggypdc]

shh, its what *cough*aria*cough uses on their instore browser stations

[M4T VW]

I just did a reinstall on my desktop of vista 32.

I love the way the UAC pops up when you try to turn it off...Its like a final goodbye:lol:

[monkey56657]

If they left it off by default then the people who actually need it wouldn't know about it or how to turn it on. The people who realize it can be turned off are those who don't need it :lol:

[wonderlust]

The one thing that gets me about this is acrobat reader, if UAC is off, you can only instal AR by running it in xp compatibility mode!

[marsey99]

im in a clan and the amount of clan mates i have who have trouble with games is untrue, and they work fine for me with it off. im sure it does more than it says.