Re: It gets even funnier! (was Re: How the hell can you stand this bullshit?

Alan Baker <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So a program that -- one would think -- is just going to give you a
report triggers UAC with that message.

That is going to give the unsophisticated user lots of confidence, isn't
it?

Seriously: how do you stand it?

I turned off UAC. It's nothing more than a worthless nuisance, for
anyone smart enough to be reading this NG.

I'm not talking about whether it's a problem for me, but imagine the
poor average user:

He fires up a program that represents itself as only reporting on
something that's already happened, and he's faced with:

"Do you want the following program to make changes to your computer?"


UAC is pretty heavy-handed security, it's true (hence why it's a
nuisance to me). But it's the only way to do it right, for what it's
intended to do - it makes no assumption that the system is really
secure, so it proactively blocks potentially damaging operations,
unless the user specifically authorizes it (and has privileges to do
so). It's a pain in the ass, and I'm glad I can so easily disable it,
but it does add a terrific layer of security.

That having been said, though, you ask a fair question in this case.
People using Easy Transfer or whatever it's called are probably not
familiar with the Vista/7 changes, and might wonder about the somewhat
cryptic message. Perhaps MS could have done a better job about
warning people about it ahead of time, when they run Easy Transfer in
the first place. But I can see how the report viewer would need to
modify the system, at least in some cases - it might be updating its
previous information, for example.

--
Joel Crump
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