THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"

http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/archive/2007/02/08/uac-bs.aspx

So over on Michael Howard's blog.... he talks about the hype versus the reality of UAC and it reminds me of the experience I had this weekend in Best Buy talking to a guy who did custom computers for folks..he said that he turned off UAC completely for a client who kept getting UAC'd every time she copied a file from one drive to another and it would UAC prompt her and she was ready to strangle him... she hated the UAC prompts.. and I said to him that I had not seen that issue... he said she nearly threw the computer through the wall.. so I gave him my email address and told him to email me so we could better figure out what was going on as I hadn't seen that and UAC for me only showed up when I did admin-y things.  You know, event viewer, device driver window, stuff like that....

So I commented on Mr. Howard's blog about that "hype versus reality" of UAC and then all of a sudden I remembered a post on Dr. J's blog: 

Jesper's Blog : Help: Vista won't let me write to my external hard drive:
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2007/01/16/help-vista-won-t-let-me-write-to-my-external-hard-drive.aspx

How much do you want to bet that that was the issue that this person was seeing? Because inside the Vista computer when I have a C and a D drive I get no UAC prompt....

So... if you were the custom computer builder in Best Buy last weekend that I gave my email address to... EMAIL ME... as we can solve your issue and your customer can have UAC reenabled.