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14 Replies Last post: May 30, 2008 7:00 PM by crazy4laptops

PCWorld

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Dec 11, 2007 10:41 AM

Make Vista's User Account Control Work for You

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Aravorn

1 posts since
Aug 23, 2006

1. Dec 11, 2007 12:42 PM

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Make Vista's User Account Control Work for You

This method does work.... for a while. But after EVERY Windows update (or even going to the Windows Update page to check for updates0 the UAC is back on. very irritating!

Adama

2,837 posts since
Sep 7, 2007

2. Dec 11, 2007 2:17 PM

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I had to turn off my UAC for a couple of weeks, but I didn't like not having the protection. So I turned it back on. Now I no longer mind the prompts I receive, I guess I've gotten used to it.

KAKASHI HATAKE, The Copy Ninja. (Naruto)

Car54

366 posts since
Nov 16, 2006

3. Dec 11, 2007 2:20 PM

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I've kinda just given into it too, for now.

Happy user of Vista, XP, Firefox, IE7, of paid for, and free security software. I’m an equal opportunity user, lol

tascon

1 posts since
Apr 2, 2007

4. Dec 18, 2007 10:51 PM

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Make Vista's User Account Control Work for You

I did it a few months ago and never looked back... UAC is for beginners and I don't think that it gives you extra protection, since after a while, you don't pay attention to it anymore and are more vulnerable to threats.

piyushsingh

1,816 posts since
Jul 21, 2007

5. Dec 11, 2007 9:00 PM

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If only you are using your system , then UAC is merely delaying your work by a few seconds, so its better to turn it off.
For multiple accounts on a system , its a powerful tool and theres a lot to tweak in there.

check out my blog : exploring the vista games explorer

dalemay

3 posts since
Aug 29, 2006

6. Dec 18, 2007 10:51 PM

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Make Vista's User Account Control Work for You

I just use Live One Care from Microsoft and I'm done. User control becomes less important, and I don't have to switch from Admin to User every time I want to download a file.

Mercedes55

2 posts since
Dec 18, 2007

7. Dec 18, 2007 10:51 PM

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Make Vista's User Account Control Work for You

UAC = USELESS ACCESS CONTROLLER

billhatton100

2 posts since
Dec 30, 2007

8. Dec 30, 2007 8:56 PM

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I turn my UAC off just as soon as I install Vista. I only use Windows to play games. If you want to do serious computing & have security switch to Linux.
I have to reinstall Windows at least 2 or 3 times a year. I don't foresee Vista changing that fact.

crazy4laptops

356 posts since
Nov 20, 2007

9. Jan 8, 2008 9:59 AM

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I don't like UAC. Why does it prompt for every single system change? (msconfig, software, etc.) It just slows me down when i need to be the most productive. I want to know why i need protection from actions that I know are safe. I wish there was an add to safe list with UAC. And plus Mcafee security center does a better job of keeping my computer safe from real threats instead of false positives/alarms within the computer itself.

I don't have to keep up with technology, i just adapt when I want to.

Lexicon

1 posts since
Jan 28, 2008

10. Jan 28, 2008 6:24 PM

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Annoyance Buster: Make Vista's User Account Control Work for You

UAC meddling gave me the error message, "Failed to load resource DLL" when I tried to launch WS-FTP Pro, a program that had worked just fine for a month in my Vista Ultimate install. Why would UAC do such a thing? Because for some reason Vista forgot that I am an ADMINISTRATOR. I fixed the problem by turning UAC completley off -officially "not recommended"- and now my XP version of WS-FTP Pro works exactly in Vista as I'd hoped it would!

texronin

1 posts since
Apr 11, 2008

11. Apr 11, 2008 12:04 AM

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Annoyance Buster: Make Vista's User Account Control Work for You

A free program WinBubble 1.71 will probably solve most of these problems w/o all of the person coding.

rgoya

1 posts since
Apr 2, 2008

12. Apr 19, 2008 7:30 AM

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Annoyance Buster: Make Vista's User Account Control Work for You

to create the desktop shortcuts, I used the right-click menu by right-clicking on the files where I saved them (User/Documents/Vista and chose "Send To > Desktop (create a shortcut)" -- Done!