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Windows 7 Will Refine UAC

Windows 7 Will Refine UAC

Ewigen Zyniker, Oct 11, 2008 1003 hrs IST

Will cease annoying you as much

Know what's the first we do when we install Vista? Disable User Account Control (UAC). It's Microsoft's idea of giving you a good-natured warning that what you are about to do affects something important in the system. However, as with many things good-natured, this one gets annoying really fast. Seven steps to delete a shortcut? Tsk, tsk. Which is why we, and many of you, disable the blasted feature.

With Windows 7, though, Microsoft intends to revamp UAC to be less annoying, so you won't be tempted to disable it, and won't miss out on the security features it offers. Microsoft found that because you found UAC so annoying, you've just been allowing programs to do whatever they want out of sheer frustration.

Windows 7 will reduce the number of prompts, so you won't feel like you need permission for everything you run. Maybe now we'll get a Windows that doesn't treat us like babies.


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USER COMMENTS

actually, the point of UAC IS to annoy both the developer and the user. The deal is that a program should be written keeping in mind that such kind of control invasive system actions should be avoided to begin with. Its a good idea, but i agree its implementation is rather stupid. If Microsoft wants to avoid access to some core area, just block it period.

by Blogger, Mumbai, on Oct 13, 2008 12:39 PM, Report abuse   Reply

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