I turned off UAC
 

For various reasons I turned off UAC.
Is there a way I can prevent that bubble in the lower right from warning
me constantly?

Re: I turned off UAC
 

Justin wrote:
> For various reasons I turned off UAC.
> Is there a way I can prevent that bubble in the lower right from warning
> me constantly?

You can substitute it with the new one now:
"Welcome viruses!
I have opened the door to you all because windows is a crappy insecure
OS, and the only thing that was saving my ass was UAC that was stupid
and annoying. How ELSE could MS blame the users for its own bad design?"

Re: I turned off UAC
 

Justin wrote:
> For various reasons I turned off UAC.
> Is there a way I can prevent that bubble in the lower right from warning
> me constantly?

Awhh ok I wont be so bad...

go to control panel (click on clasic view on the left)> security center
> and on the left you will see "change the way security center alerts me"

good luck with viruses

Re: I turned off UAC
 

The UAC, as you realize, is utterly useless.
The concept of a warning is admirable. However the Vista UAC is simply a
blind prompt that gives no information about any potential threat and merely
pops up as result of user actions. Its aim is to make the user feel
responsible if something goes awry rather than blame the lazy ass
programming that goes into Windows.
Win7/Vista SP3 does not have the knee jerk UAC of Vista. Alas Win7/Vista SP3
retains, as far as I can see and have read, all the lazy ass programming
that makes Windows unnecessarily vulnerable to the evil a-holes of the
world.
The OS itself, whether Windows/Apple/Linux is rapidly becoming irrelevant in
a browser based, cloud computing world.
IBM may have the last laugh as it pushes a Linux based cloud computing model
to companies fed up with tithing Microsoft's endless and valueless upgrade
cycles.

Re: I turned off UAC
 

Thegrackfire wrote:
> Justin wrote:
>> For various reasons I turned off UAC.
>> Is there a way I can prevent that bubble in the lower right from
>> warning me constantly?
>
> You can substitute it with the new one now:
> "Welcome viruses!
> I have opened the door to you all because windows is a crappy insecure
> OS, and the only thing that was saving my ass was UAC that was stupid
> and annoying. How ELSE could MS blame the users for its own bad design?"

Hey CAPIN' CRUNCH...YOUR EMPTY HEAD FELL OUT OF YOUR FAT STUPID ASS AGAIN!
OOPS!!!
Re-install!!!

Re: I turned off UAC
 

FBonWin7b1x64 wrote:
> Thegrackfire wrote:
>> Justin wrote:
>>> For various reasons I turned off UAC.
>>> Is there a way I can prevent that bubble in the lower right from
>>> warning me constantly?
>>
>> You can substitute it with the new one now:
>> "Welcome viruses!
>> I have opened the door to you all because windows is a crappy insecure
>> OS, and the only thing that was saving my ass was UAC that was stupid
>> and annoying. How ELSE could MS blame the users for its own bad design?"
>
> Hey CAPIN' CRUNCH...YOUR EMPTY HEAD FELL OUT OF YOUR FAT STUPID ASS AGAIN!
> OOPS!!!
> Re-install!!!


Yet I was knowledgeable enough to provide him with the solution even
though i know vista is stinky. Which was:


go to control panel (click on classic view on the left)> security center
> and on the left you will see "change the way security center alerts me"

You a big fat bald and old vista fan, dont care about vista users.
You are here only as a toothless watchdog that runs around barking to
everyone insulting your precious vista.

Re: I turned off UAC
 

semoi wrote:
> The UAC, as you realize, is utterly useless.
> The concept of a warning is admirable. However the Vista UAC is simply a
> blind prompt that gives no information about any potential threat and
> merely pops up as result of user actions. Its aim is to make the user
> feel responsible if something goes awry rather than blame the lazy ass
> programming that goes into Windows.
> Win7/Vista SP3 does not have the knee jerk UAC of Vista. Alas Win7/Vista
> SP3 retains, as far as I can see and have read, all the lazy ass
> programming that makes Windows unnecessarily vulnerable to the evil
> a-holes of the world.
> The OS itself, whether Windows/Apple/Linux is rapidly becoming
> irrelevant in a browser based, cloud computing world.
> IBM may have the last laugh as it pushes a Linux based cloud computing
> model to companies fed up with tithing Microsoft's endless and valueless
> upgrade cycles.


You are correct about all the points you are making. I have talked about
them again and again in here, but vista fans dont have high IQ's and
dont understand what the heck I am talking about.

> The OS itself, whether Windows/Apple/Linux is rapidly becoming
> irrelevant in a browser based, cloud computing world.

This is why linux has an advantage over windows in the new CLOUD era.
all that is needed is a cheap and stable platform to access the cloud.
The cloud is self updating self upgrading...

the only problem with the cloud, is that it will be getting better
without you knowing what changes will be going on! lol

Re: I turned off UAC
 

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:03:01 -0500, Justin wrote:

> For various reasons I turned off UAC.
> Is there a way I can prevent that bubble in the lower right from warning
> me constantly?

Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista
¡E User Account Control
¡E Image management
¡E Display Driver Model
¡E Search
¡E 64 bit architecture
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

The User Access Control (UAC) can detect rootkits before they install.
AV-Test.org carried on a test of common AV applications to find out how
good they detected rootkits. The examiner had to turn off UAC because it
detected every rootkit used in the test.

Avoiding Rootkit Infection.
"The rules to avoid rootkit infection are for the most part the same as
avoiding any malware infection however there are some special
considerations:
Because rootkits meddle with the operating system itself they *require*
full Administrator rights to install. Hence infection can be avoided by
running Windows from an account with *lesser* privileges" (LUA in XP and
UAC in Vista).

You should understand the reason why UAC is there. You should read about
the two access tokens for user/admin on Vista, and yes, if UAC is disabled,
then Run As Administrator is disabled too.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc709691.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../cc160882.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m.../cc138019.aspx

Now, listen to the experts and be guided accordingly!

Good luck :)

Re: I turned off UAC
 

"Kayman" <kayhkay-nospam-@operamail.com> wrote in message
news:tkyvtjw916zj.1t5r5ei02wrl4.dlg@40tude.net...
> Now, listen to the experts and be guided accordingly!
> Good luck :)

Most users with a brain don't like the constant nagging of UAC.
As good as the idea may be, the implementation is so poor as to render it
useless.

Re: I turned off UAC
 

Justin wrote:
> For various reasons I turned off UAC.
> Is there a way I can prevent that bubble in the lower right from warning
> me constantly?

no one seems to have mentioned www.tweakuac.com

TweakUACâ„¢ is a free software tool that you can use to quickly turn UAC
(User Account Control of Windows Vista) on or off, or to make UAC
operate in the quiet mode. This software is FREE, no strings attached.