I decided to turn UAC off. But after I did so I was no longer able to play movies from my external hard drive. I turned it back on and was able to play them again. Why is this?
I'm a windows sys admin, and I like to know when something is being installed (or impacting the operating system). Someone mentioned - macs do the same thing, albeit a little more efficiently, but this is a new feature that has improved with SP1 so it may need just a bit of time. Something that's gotten alot better with vista is the ability to runas without logging in as admin which was a crapshoot in XP.
Also - correct me if I'm wrong - don't Macs also add the first user to the admin group by default?
Let the rest quitherebitchin. I personally like UAC myself as well. I want to know if something is cross-scripted, has an ActiveX (even those from Microsoft that pop up) that might hurt my computers or whatever. I don't particularly like the question of whether I know the program and would I like to go on. But even that's necessary to be a good Administrator. These are users with Admins who have everyone running the same higher privileges as themselves, simply because they don't want to be bothered. If they don't like UAC, then let them buy Vista Basic. Otherwise it's just the usual bashing of the 'evil empire'. Now if we could just get Microsoft to come out with a feature that tells the user that the program or code makes absolutely no sense. That would really drive them buggy. And it would make programmers and those who write code for a living learn how to do so. This from a person who has 40 years experience and has seen computers go from as big as a barn with punch cards, to paper and magnetic tape, then Floppies and HD's that took more than one person to pick up, to today's machines. Too many times has a program made no sense or code have that one missing comma or whatever. Or how about a program built into the program that won't let them write a sentence with the wrong syntax. Talk about them going wild with complaints.
The reason Mac OS X is more secure than Windows is not because it is less popular, but because there is nothing like ActiveX on Macintosh. The few viruses that have been written for Mac had to be MANUALLY installed by users, which there's nothing you can do for bad judgement. Microsoft has long tried to "babysit" Windows users, but all it does is stifle productivity within the OS.
Oh and believe me, Microsoft, Vista is annoying far beyond UAC.
Vista is a SNAFU and Microsoft can't admit it or recall it (nor do I believe the SP1-2-3, etc. will fix it) because it would cost too much embarassment and money. They will keep coming up with excuses until the already planned & progressing new Windows is brought out in about 3 years. All of us are stuck and Microsoft knows it and doesn't care.
R u serious? All-you like to pay money to be annoyed????
Well I volunteer my services...
You all can now give me your money-- and I'll annoy you as much as you want.... As long as you keep paying I'll annoy you as much as you want and I'll do it for way--- cheaper than M$. ;-)
Windows users are masochists. They just keep complaining, but keep coming back for more punishment again and again. Use your energy to switch to Linux or Mac or whatever but stop complaining.
Most masochists you meet on the streets are the closet type, they don't go around bragging about how they like to be tied up and whipped to a bloody pulp. They just do it in secret, covering their wounds with long sleeve shirts and pants. But there are some who like the attention, they like people pitying them for being all bloody and beaten, they go out in public wearing swimwear to show off their wounds.
Winblows users are the latter type. They tie themselves all up and allow billy boy to beat them senseless, then they step out onto the porch and cry about it to any fool who'll listen to their pathetic crying.
I'm neither, which is why I run Ubuntu. Free, as in beer. Free, as in freedom. Free, as in painless. Free, as in it's MY COMPUTER and I decide what runs on it and what doesn't. Free, as in I turn the computer on and have a desktop within 30 seconds instead of waiting 2 minutes. Free, as in there is no killswitch like WGD to "malfunction" and lock me out of my own data. Free, as in it doesn't annoy the fertilizer out of me just to make some idiotic point to someone else.
So true, and I'm as guilty as any. The thing is, it's a fair amount of trouble to switch, and you always assume Microsoft is going to fix things. At least I did, before I learned that they put it annoyances intentionally.
Microsoft, have you checked Apple's rising sales figures lately? Better check them again, because you've just lost another customer.
"It's a myth that users click 'yes,' 'yes,' 'yes,' 'yes,'" said Cross. "Seven percent of all prompts are canceled. Users are not just saying 'yes.'"
So because 7% of people cancel the prompts, that is enough evidence to support the theory that people do not just blindly click? Not only is that stupid to say, but it is stupid to write an article about.
The 7% of poeple who cancel the prompts are those ******* idiots that do not read what the prompts are saying and know so little about computers they do not want to be the person that presses yes and launches all of the nukes..... They are the same people that ask what every little message means on the screen no matter how simple. Disk is full....What does that mean? Operation complete....So, Does that mean it is done?
You would think that Microsoft would at least have the data to support the fact that 93% of people don't know what the hell they are doing. You would also think that they would notice that as things get easier, those same 93% of people, that count for the worlds population of idiots, get dumber.
It is not because they are not capable either. They are just lazy.
Folks, I have really tried to use Vista. The productivity hit was too much, the OS is unstable at times, and he numerous alerts and pop-ups are really annoying. Twice I have twice backed off to "downgrade" to XP and am now quite happy again, even though there aren't XP drivers for everything in my laptop (yet). Microsoft should quit blaming users for the low adoption of Vista, get off their "know it all" stance, and just accept that people don't want to be patronized OR annoyed. Randy Stockton
Microsoft made Windows like Mac OS X, but unlike Microsoft, Apple got their UAC right on the first try. You need to install something, it asks you for your password. That's it. Simple, easy to use, not the annoyance-fest that is UAC! Just watching a divx video triggers UAC more times than I care to remember.
The very first thing I do is turn that sucker off, it really is annoying, but it doesn't make me want to contact independent developers and tell them to clean up their code on behalf of the mighty Microsoft. Let Microsoft do that, it's their operating system! I just wanted to watch a video and not play 20 questions!
CNet probably doesn't allow curses, does it? Because while I don't often have the urge to put curses in comments, in this case I have a very strong urge to write "F*** these people" in capital letters. How presumptious and obnoxious can a company be? How in-the-face contemptuous of the user? I don't give a **** about Microsoft's blinking lying statistics about how many little old ladies don't know how to turn off UAC. I wasted time trying it and being annoyed by it, and now I can't use what should be a basic security feature because they made it too damn annoying to use. Intentionally!
This takes the cake. Microsoft, I want my $200 back. I've always thought Vista mediocre and Windows in general riddled with annoyances, but never in my wildest imagination did it occur to me that you were adding annoyances on purpose.
The irony is that those of us who use both Macs and Windows have been putting in our passwords for every little thing in OS X for years now with nary a complaint... but as soon as Vista's UAC popped up everyone wet their pants and went into a tizzy.
It is more obstrusive in Windows, I'll agree, but it's the same concept Mac users have had for a long time. And it's what Secure Linux users are using, too. Check out SL in any of the latest Linux releases... same princial as UAC and OS X's password protection.... Get used to it. It's the way of the world.
I would like UAC to remember which programs I have given permission to run in Administrator Mode, plus the <a href="www.vistafeel.com">www.vistafeel.com</a> for some vista skin would help u david.
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Also - correct me if I'm wrong - don't Macs also add the first user to the admin group by default?
is less popular, but because there is nothing like ActiveX on
Macintosh. The few viruses that have been written for Mac had to
be MANUALLY installed by users, which there's nothing you can do
for bad judgement. Microsoft has long tried to "babysit" Windows
users, but all it does is stifle productivity within the OS.
Oh and believe me, Microsoft, Vista is annoying far beyond UAC.
Hmmmm.
What sort of ecosystem annoys you into doing the right thing?
An annoying one.
Still, it says a lot that they're PLANNING to replace it THAT quickly.
You all can now give me your money-- and I'll annoy you as much as you want.... As long as you keep paying I'll annoy you as much as you want and I'll do it for way--- cheaper than M$. ;-)
They just keep complaining, but keep coming back for more punishment again and again.
Use your energy to switch to Linux or Mac or whatever but stop complaining.
they don't go around bragging about how they like to be tied up
and whipped to a bloody pulp. They just do it in secret, covering
their wounds with long sleeve shirts and pants. But there are
some who like the attention, they like people pitying them for
being all bloody and beaten, they go out in public wearing
swimwear to show off their wounds.
Winblows users are the latter type. They tie themselves all up
and allow billy boy to beat them senseless, then they step out
onto the porch and cry about it to any fool who'll listen to their
pathetic crying.
I'm neither, which is why I run Ubuntu. Free, as in beer. Free, as
in freedom. Free, as in painless. Free, as in it's MY COMPUTER
and I decide what runs on it and what doesn't. Free, as in I turn
the computer on and have a desktop within 30 seconds instead
of waiting 2 minutes. Free, as in there is no killswitch like WGD
to "malfunction" and lock me out of my own data. Free, as in it
doesn't annoy the fertilizer out of me just to make some idiotic
point to someone else.
Microsoft, have you checked Apple's rising sales figures lately? Better check them again, because you've just lost another customer.
So because 7% of people cancel the prompts, that is enough evidence to support the theory that people do not just blindly click? Not only is that stupid to say, but it is stupid to write an article about.
The 7% of poeple who cancel the prompts are those ******* idiots that do not read what the prompts are saying and know so little about computers they do not want to be the person that presses yes and launches all of the nukes..... They are the same people that ask what every little message means on the screen no matter how simple. Disk is full....What does that mean? Operation complete....So, Does that mean it is done?
You would think that Microsoft would at least have the data to support the fact that 93% of people don't know what the hell they are doing. You would also think that they would notice that as things get easier, those same 93% of people, that count for the worlds population of idiots, get dumber.
It is not because they are not capable either. They are just lazy.
The very first thing I do is turn that sucker off, it really is annoying, but it doesn't make me want to contact independent developers and tell them to clean up their code on behalf of the mighty Microsoft. Let Microsoft do that, it's their operating system! I just wanted to watch a video and not play 20 questions!
This takes the cake. Microsoft, I want my $200 back. I've always thought Vista mediocre and Windows in general riddled with annoyances, but never in my wildest imagination did it occur to me that you were adding annoyances on purpose.
It is more obstrusive in Windows, I'll agree, but it's the same concept Mac users have had for a long time. And it's what Secure Linux users are using, too. Check out SL in any of the latest Linux releases... same princial as UAC and OS X's password protection.... Get used to it. It's the way of the world.