I have to warn you ahead of time.
Disabling UAC has reverse effects of actually being able to uninstall or run many programs still.
If one way does not work you may have to try the other.
The UAC at its core is likely a good bit of software.
From the end user aspect, why didn't they simply setup the feature to allow the administrator to set what programs warn me and which ones do not?
Just list the program types in Groups like Sysinternals or Windows Defender or MS Config does and the UAC would not be such an eyesore after a few months.
A very simple piece of logic could have gone much farther with last February's deployment.
"XS11E" <xs11e@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:Xns99F77351E5FDExs11eyahoocom@127.0.0.1...
"clintonG" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> I'm an experienced user about to get my first machine configured
> with Vista Home Premium.
>
> I'll have a lot of work to do uninstalling and installing software
> to set up my new machine. Learning to cope with the security
> features that I've heard gets in the way so much seems to be the
> first thing I would want to learn to do eh?
The very first thing you'll have to do is remove all the "crapware"
that comes installed on new computers these days and you might just
want to disable the User Account Control while doing so.
To maintain security you can NOT connect to the internet (unplug the
modem) until you've removed all the programs you don't want and
installed all the programs you do want and when that's done you can
turn the UAC back on and then connect.
Here's how:
To turn off UAC open User Accounts from Control Panel and you'll see
"Turn User Account Control on or off", click on it, uncheck the box,
you'll need to reboot.
To stop being nagged about UAC being off, open Security Center from
Control Panel, click "Change the way Security Center alerts me" and
select one of the "Don't notify me" options.
Just do the reverse after you've removed/installed what you need and
then it's safe to reconnect your modem.
> Does anybody have any referrals to blogs about setting up Vista in
> this context to make it more user friendly? Is there a known blog
> or guide yuo can refer me to?
I don't know of one but reading this group can sure help and I'm sure
someone else can direct you to such a guide.
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