UAC video
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Well you are a lucky man then because deleting files, moving files, fiddling with shortcuts etc. pops up plenty of UAC dialogs for me. And every review I have read of Vista complains about UAC. Are you running in admin mode by any chance?
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
Perhaps it's because those files and shortcuts were in what are considered "protected" areas, like the root of your Windows drive, or in the All Users menu areas. My account is considered administrator level(as opposed to user level), but with UAC enabled, so when I try to do something like run your averge setup program, run Regedit, delete a folder from "Program Files" or make changes to the "all users" start menu I get prompted. But then again, I expect to get the prompt for actions like that because I'm changing basic OS stuff. User specific stuff ("users\{your profile}\...\start menu" for example) shouldn't prompt you.
Mike Poz
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it was pretty funny and UAC does suck. But I still think all these Apple ads are misleading and, in general, bs. There isn't much difference between the UAC and having to type in the root password in the mac?
To a certain degree though, I think the idiot users who have made their computing environment vulnerable, deserve to be bugged about it. I keep my computer secure by being smart about it. I don't need UAC, but a large number of people out there totally deserve to be bugged by it. Until they realise what they are approving though, it doesn't do any good. People don't see the pop-up as "Warning: you are doing something unsafe! Please be sure you know what you are doing."... they see it as "Warning: Please click OK to continue." People see it as something that is preventing them from doing thier work, rather than a warning that they probably shouldn't do what they tried to do. So, when they click OK, they are really saying "Yes, please let me do my work", but that's not the question it asked. I think the dialog should say "Would you like to open up the following security hole?"
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