Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Jun 2006 21:57 UTC
Microsoft plans to make several significant tweaks to the next beta of Windows Vista to make a key security feature less annoying to users. In response to widespread criticisms that the implementation of the UAC (User Account Control) feature triggers too many privilege elevation prompt pop-ups, the software maker will make changes in Windows Vista RC1.
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2006-01-02
this is probably because crappy installers launch processes all over the place. Each installer process has to have its own validation.
I think Windows is doing this right now with a known-list of installers, to pop up the UAC dialogs at the right times. For other software, it just lets them think they're writing where they want to and virtualizing the writes off to some other part of the system. Ah, the pain MS goes to for backcompat. Those old systems should just be broken, in my opinion. Or relegated to a virtual PC sandbox.