Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Apr 2008 21:47 UTC
User Account Control is easily one of the most hated features of Windows Vista, according to readers. The seemingly endless stream of UAC pop-ups, asking you to confirm this action or that action, just get in the way (and aren't particularly zippy, given the screen redraw). Others don't mind UAC, but there's no doubt it's a controversial 'feature' of the OS. At the RSA 2008 confab in San Francisco, Microsoft admitted that UAC was designed, in fact, to annoy. Microsoft's David Cross came out and said so: "The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," said Cross. Cross had more to say than just that: Microsoft is going to put more emphasis on whitelisting.
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It's also done for the opposite reason: so that no program can read data entered into the UAC Consent password box. I don't know anything about the OS X input/windowing architecture, so maybe this ability for one app to read/write to the windows tree of another app is not something Apple has to worry about.
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UAC Proved that people don't care that much about security and would rather run as admin.
My Only complaint about UAC is the secure desktop effect (how the screen goes black and can only interact with the dialog box) It just causes too many problems, from getting in the way of what you want to do to crashing video and games when it pops up.
Secure desktop can be disabled keeping UAC mostly intact but it requires a registry edit on home versions of windows. really needs to be an option in the control panel.
the reg key if anyone cares is PromptOnSecureDesktop (change to 0 to disable) located at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Poli cies\System