Can't stand the "User Account Control: Windows needs your permission to continue" dialog?

re: Can't stand the "User Account Control: Windows needs your permission to continue" dialog?

tzagotta — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:12:01 GMT

But doesn't that completely defeat the purpose of LUA?

re: Can't stand the "User Account Control: Windows needs your permission to continue" dialog?

madenwal — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:33:05 GMT

Well, if you're the administrator on the machine, then I don't see the need to be prompted whether or not i want to continue everytime I want to run a program or open control panel or etc. It just doesn't make any sense. I think it should only prompt you for creditials if you don't have priviledges to run it.

re: Can't stand the "User Account Control: Windows needs your permission to continue" dialog?

Richard — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 20:40:46 GMT

But what about software that you might not want executing? The idea behind UAC is to stop unauthorized software from gaining that high level of access automatically.

IMHO this defeats that security feature - yeah I know it is a pain but still defeating the software controls.

re: Can't stand the "User Account Control: Windows needs your permission to continue" dialog?

madenwal — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:06:29 GMT

I'm not saying that this is a bad feature. I personally just don't like it on my laptop (which isn't part of any domain or used in a network). I think I'm very cautious with what I install and run on my machine and I personally don't ever have problems with spyware or viruses or software that I don't want running on it. So for me, it's annoying to get prompted to "continue" running whatever applications or even something as simple as "continue"-ing to do a file copy. It's just rare (i really mean never) that have any problems with unauthorized operations on my computer.

Now I do realize that all it takes is just one time for something to really screw me over. But I'm willing to take that chance to not be slowed down with every little operation I do on my computer...

re: Can't stand the "User Account Control: Windows needs your permission to continue" dialog?

tzagotta — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:52:05 GMT

I think that your experience and perspective is probably a good predictor for the majority of other users. Either people will see so many prompts all the time that they will not scrutinize them at all, or else they will disable them all together.

re: Can't stand the "User Account Control: Windows needs your permission to continue" dialog?

madenwal — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:54:27 GMT

Keep in mind that this is for ADMIN users only. There is a separate policy for STANDARD users. I just think that if you're an admin on a box, you shouldn't have to deal with those prompts.

re: Can't stand the "User Account Control: Windows needs your permission to continue" dialog?

cannondale0815 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:38:45 GMT

Unfortunately this doesn't work in Vista Home Premium, as the group policy editor doesn't exist in that version.

re: Can't stand the "User Account Control: Windows needs your permission to continue" dialog?

Rick — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:05:06 GMT

Cool! How do you hide the search box (in the start menu, under "All Programs")? I don't like that! I rather use the old "Run" command.