You had to supply your "root" password - the same as running Windows as
administrator.

All these people complaining, especially the e-zine columnists, have never
before worked with a secure operating system.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Paul Smith" wrote in message
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"Kerry Brown" *a*m wrote in message
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I'll make another broad generalization and say that most Vista users who
have considerable experience with OS' than Windows leave UAC on. It's
mostly the long time Windows users and programmers who haven't used other
OS' who are whining the loudest about UAC.

Good observation.

I've just started the update manager on Linux to download some patches, I
had to supply my password for it to start up. That's just normal.

Running with administrative rights is *bad*.

Sure UAC could do with a few improvements - the system should auto-allow
any prompts from say the Control Panel for x number of minutes once you've
accepted one already. I think that will solve most complaints.

It would also be nice to prompt when something makes a change instead of
when the app launches. Like you can open the Device Manager without being
prompted, and then if you chance something to be prompted. But that will
require a huge amount of work to be done to implement that.

But ultimately we have to let go of running everything with full rights to
the box. It's a bad habit, and its a shame so many developers are slow in
reacting.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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