User Account Control (UAC) on Vista - A useless feature

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re: User Account Control (UAC) on Vista - A useless feature

mpan3 — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:01:59 GMT

ANY confirmation dialogue, when overused, is useless and annoying.

re: User Account Control (UAC) on Vista - A useless feature

Nick Whittome — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:37:32 GMT

Trackback:

http://www.vladville.com/2007/02/uac-when-you-halfass-technology-theft.html

To Nick a challenge:

E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:06:35 GMT

http://msmvps.com/blogs/thenakedmvp/archive/2007/02/15/user-account-control-uac-on-vista-a-useless-feature-t.aspx

re: User Account Control (UAC) on Vista - A useless feature

Chris Mosby — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:40:25 GMT

Good for you!! I HATE it too!!

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Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:26:05 GMT

http://msmvps.com/blogs/thenakedmvp/archive/2007/02/15/user-account-control-uac-on-vista-a-useless-feature-t.asp

re: User Account Control (UAC) on Vista - A useless feature

Hilton Travis — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:54:42 GMT

Hi Nick,

The reason most folks hated Zone Alarm on Windows XP was because it was so "chatty" that they got sick of the popups and just turned it off or continually clicked whatever button looked like "Yes" to them.

I have said for a long time that Microsoft's implementation of Limited User and UAC is a deathwish. Microsoft long ago should have looked at Linux and they way the "su" and "sudo" commands (and similar) are used there - considering Linux was (and still is) an OS built around security not security built around an OS (which is what Microsoft has done right up until Vista) - and implemented a similar thing to that.

Instead, Microsoft's thought processes must have been something like... "now, what's the way we can piss off most people by being as utterly annoying as we can possibly be when someone needs to perform an administrative task... OF COURSE - popups! People love popups, and now we've taken many of them away when they are browsing the web, we should give each and every one back to the user when they try and do something like moving the mouse or typing a key... hhmmm, maybe that's a little too many, so just anytime they try and actually do something. Yes... That's brilliant!"

It is a real pity that when the Beta program was opened on Connect for Vista testers that, basically, the core of the OS was completed and all we could really do was test the fluff and not make any real contributions about the usability and functionality of the security subsystem of Vista. And even then, most of our comments were ignored or fobbed off by telling us that it was fixed in a new build... constantly... even though no such fix reared its head!

Shame, Microsoft, shame! </Derryn Hinch>

Regards,

HiltonT

re: User Account Control (UAC) on Vista - A useless feature

Daniel Moth — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:15:56 GMT

I have presumed that "Michelle" is user that has had her machine setup and configured by her admin/expertFriend and she has been running it for, let's say, 2 days.

I have also presumed that you are not Michelle so you are not projecting your own experiences onto Michelle.

How about listing on your blog the actions that have made the UAC prompt appear on Michelle's machine after the above 2 days. Just curious.