Shooting at Bubbles

I can totally understand the need for UAC (User Access Control) from a security point of view; but damn there had to be a better way to do this.

I have only been using Vista full time for a couple of days now and while in general I have been enjoying it this implementation of UAC sucks rocks.

The eye candy might be getting people in through the door; so to speak, but the current UAC is going to piss people off en masse. I know this has been mentioned ad nauseam in a lot of the more tech blogs looking at Vista; but it is nothing compared to what we are going to hear when Vista reaches a broader average user userbase.

One of the most bemoaned features of Vista has been the UAC (User Account Control) security measures. For those power users out there this has been a real pain in the butt and something that they want more control over.

Well Tim Snead has come to the rescue with a well written explanation of how you can get some control back over UAC; but I especially liked this comment he made:

It is possible to switch UAC off. I really don’t recommend it – if you like full control over your machine, surely you want to know when something is attempting to perform an administrative-level action? Nevertheless, I’d prefer to have you run Windows Vista without UAC than having you run a different operating system.

A nice little bit of honesty