watz with the hate for UAC? Its a good security feature and the implementation of UAC in W7 is almost non-intrusive. And if it still bugs u, just turn it off. Even Linux has this.
@geekthree Guys, he just wants to be cool. All the cool people bash the UAC.
Quite frankly, I quite like knowing when certain programs are trying to run, has stopped quite a few unwanted programs in the past and I continue to have it enabled :)
There's always going to be a compromise between security and comvenience.
I worked as a systems admin, and I'm not sure I can think of needing to text edit system files so often that UAC bugged me. Plus, you can always edit your right-click menu to include an edit with notepad as administrator.
@Ross McLean No.. All of the people that work in software support bash UAC.
I don't care what its like for the end user, in fact I'm glad most of my end users keep it on, but for software support, it's a serious pain in the backside.
I don't see how pointing out that something adds more time to a job consistently is bashing something to be cool, I have a legitimate reason for it.
@geekthree Actually if there are system or user settings in program files the app has done something incorrectly. System settings should generally be stored in the registry and user settings in the registry and/or user's profile directory.
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Can we get rid of UAC? Properly?
@geekthree
UAC is great in W7 were have you been?
You can disable it if you want, for the average user it's fine.
@geekthree what's wrong with UAC? It was never that annoying in Vista and it certainly isn't annoying in windows 7.
@geekthree Why? You can change the notifications in Windows 7.
@geekthree Can we get rid of SUDO on OS X or any nix distro?
Thought so.
@geekthree
watz with the hate for UAC? Its a good security feature and the implementation of UAC in W7 is almost non-intrusive. And if it still bugs u, just turn it off. Even Linux has this.
@Jordus Less offensive on unix or mac.
Try working in tech support, and editing text files within C:\Program Files
You have to go to start, search for notepad, run it as administrator, then browse to the location.
Try doing that over a slow assed remote connection.
If you don't, windows says Access denied.
It could just ask for permission.
Sorry, UAC is better, I compleatly agree, but it needs work :/
@geekthree
Guys, he just wants to be cool. All the cool people bash the UAC.
Quite frankly, I quite like knowing when certain programs are trying to run, has stopped quite a few unwanted programs in the past and I continue to have it enabled :)
@geekthree
There's always going to be a compromise between security and comvenience.
I worked as a systems admin, and I'm not sure I can think of needing to text edit system files so often that UAC bugged me. Plus, you can always edit your right-click menu to include an edit with notepad as administrator.
@Ross McLean No.. All of the people that work in software support bash UAC.
I don't care what its like for the end user, in fact I'm glad most of my end users keep it on, but for software support, it's a serious pain in the backside.
I don't see how pointing out that something adds more time to a job consistently is bashing something to be cool, I have a legitimate reason for it.
@Ellianth
Not annoying?? It is annoying as hell on vista. Asks the same stupid questions on every startup. Fucked my system when i disabled it.
@Ellianth I don't see anything wrong with UAC, however Vista was a pos.
@geekthree Actually if there are system or user settings in program files the app has done something incorrectly. System settings should generally be stored in the registry and user settings in the registry and/or user's profile directory.
@rhomaion
+1 Vista will always be a PoS. Mac's + Windows 8 ftw.