Vista UAC - User Access Control

[Nij.UK]

This is for all the Vista users and people that have been testing Vista.

 

If you have come across Vista im sure you all would have some accross some interaction with UAC. its the lovely UI that always asks you "Are you sure you want to do this"

 

Im part of a project to roll out vista and have been doing some reading about it and can see the benifits with it. Its been appearing in *nix and Mac for some time now. But i know its annoying some long term Windows users.

 

What i wanted to know is, what are your experiences with UAC, did you just turn it off straight away or did you give it a chance? Is it a feature worth exploring?

 

Thanks

 

Niraj

[Jake]

I just turned mine off straight away, was giving me all kinds of annoyance when running games

[bishopsgarthstockton]

Turned it off

[mattx]

Turned it off after it popped up for the first time.

[StewartKnight]

same here. If I wanted to be asked to if I really REALLY wanted to do something, I'd use Linux!

[Nij.UK]

hummm so it looks like most of you just turned it off.

 

I understand the reason for admin's to do this as myself i found it annoying.

 

Do you think it would be benifical to have it turned on with regards to the standard user?

[bossman]

Nij.UK:

 

"are you sure you want to do this"

"are you sure you want to do this"

"are you sure you want to do this"

"are you sure you want to do this"

"are you sure you want to do this"

 

 

Nij.UK:Get the drift (disable it until you really need it, which will be never)

[Guest richard]

Disabled it when I had Vista running but have gone back to XP now so its not a problem.

[Nij.UK]

LOL.... this is not for me...

 

I am part of the Vista project at a large university... and to be honest, if it was my personal machine i would just turn it off aswell...

 

But my part of the project is to see if it would benifit having it turned on for members of staff at the uni..

 

I know its a pain for admin, but i can see the benifit for the standard user. I still dont know what to suggest to the team just yet... that why i wants other peoples views!

[Dos_Box]

It was 'Bye bye UAC' for me. Mind you, last Thurday was 'Bye bye Vista'. I went back to XP and everything works again now

Vista is still no good for your work network admin PC as most admin extensions will not work correctly with it (Adminpak etc), coupled with zero benifits over XP I binned it. I await SP1 wait baited breath IMHO we are still running RC2.

[Geoff]

To be fair, you can make the admin pack work.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;930056&x=13&y=13

[deed02392]

I had it on for an evening, turned it off for a couple of weeks. Hard drive corrupts, reinstall Vista, left it on. Speach recognition can't get past it. Left it on, got sick of incompatibilites, reinstalled XP. Lived happily since.

[john]

I have it on still on my laptop, once your setup and running, it never bothers you that much.

[Skullsplitter]

Turned it off, far too annoying. Also, I like to have as much cvontrol over wht my PC does as possible.

[srochford]

I can see that admins might want to turn it off (although it can serve as a useful reminder that you're about to do something potentially damaging) but there's no way I'd turn it off for ordinary users - they ought not to be doing things which need admin rights so it should pop up very infrequently.

 

What I'd guess I'd like is the ability to control when it pops up. For example, it seems to come up for almost everything that uses MMC; I can understand this if you're running services.msc but event viewer??? What harm can I cause by reading an event log? I know an admin can delete logs and you might not want this to happen so pop up the UAC at that point, not when I just want to check the system.

[m25man]

Has anyone tried giving remote support to anyone running Vista with UAC enabled?

 

Half of my usual apps (VNC based) simply appeared and closed tried everything, totally reliant on the remote user to "allow" the remote applications and then reconnect, total nightmare.

 

Disable UAC and VNC sessions are back to normal operation again.

 

I have been suffering Vista since 1st beta, I have to have a VM with an XP image ready at all times just to keep things working. Vista is still a year away from full roll out as far as Im concerned but at least with UAC off it can be tolerated.

[Teth]

I had it off all the time during the beta. Since release in preparation for eventually rolling it out I decided to keep it on and learn to live with it. As an admin I have gotten fed up and disabled it a few times. When you have just installed and your setting up your desktop and drivers its a major PITA but I re-enabled it afterwards and I'd honestly say now that it is a good thing. A little sidebar control to enable and disable it on the fly when you know your about to do something thats gonna spawn a dozen of them. Another solution would be 3 options on the popup. Ok | Cancel | Ok and supress UAC for 5mins. would be great.

[sqdge]

I turned UAC off - and have not suffered any ill effects.

 

However, for those who want it switched off only every now and then, there is a utility called Tweak UAC that will temporarily disable the function without the need to restart the computer.