[ich]

I don't know about you, but when I'm logged in under an Administrator account it's because I know what I'm doing and I have a specific goal in mind. I'm sick of trying to rename something on the Start menu and getting 4 - count 'em, 4!!!! - prompts before I can do it (in system dictated folders)

I feel that making someone confirm their actions as often as Vista does ends up being counter-productive because people stop reading them - clicking "continue" or "yes" becomes habitual. It's the same reason I always install Spy-bot but leave Tea-Timer disabled.

Anyway, some hacks I've put in place to eliminate the extra "security" of a thousand pop-ups and eliminate one of the other most annoying things done in the name of "security"


Command Prompt can't Release or Renew with IPCONFIG
What's up with that? You can't elevate the command prompt once it's open so you have to create a shortcut to CMD and modify it:

1. Create a shortcut to %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe
2. Right click on the shortcut and select properties
3. On the |Shortcut| tab, click on the [Advanced] button
4. Check the Run as Administrator tick box

Turn off the incessant pop-ups

1. Go to Control Panel / User Accounts
2. Click on Turn User Account Control on or off
3. Un-check Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer
4. Click [OK]
5. Reboot

[briealeida]

I have a hard time believing that all of the developers at Micro$oft thought that this was a good idea. Even if the General Public isn't all that intelligent, they don't need to be handheld through their own system like that.

I mean, any REAL upsides to this?

[JohnWill]

We had a pretty lively discussion at the last Microsoft MVP summit about UAC. I offered the opinion that it was ... well not something you'd put on the dinner table.

I still don't understand why Microsoft could not have figured out how to determine that the commands in question ACTUALLY came from the keyboard and were not in a script. This would have solved most of the UAC complaints.