Comments on: 4 Ways to Make UAC Less Annoying on Windows 7 / Vista

By: Phred

Phred — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:52:34 +0000

Hell, John Doe – just think Security. The Russian Mafia now knows that easy OSs are a money source par excellence. There’s money, big money, in insecurity. Yep, there’s certain personality types that security measures can’t save but for the sake of your system, via accidental keypresses, malformed grpahics.. whatever, log in as a standard user. Only when you do administrative things do you need to be an admin. See, it’s in the name..

By: John Doe

John Doe — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:59:09 +0000

You must be an Administrator to use Norton’s UAC control.

You don’t have to disable UAC. Use TweakUAC en you won’t be bothered by it. Only for Administrators.

I have a question. I am the only user on my computer. Should I log on as Administrator or Standard user?

By: Tom Hall

Tom Hall — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:31:13 +0000

UAC used or not, Vista has proved itself to be one of the worst ’serious’ operating systems from MS. It is claimed to be ’stable’ yet it crashes/freezes/louses-up an order of magnitude more times than XP. Yes, it’s additional features seemed to make it an improvement over XP initially, but as time wears on and it gets more use,there are no end of ‘corruptions’ that occur – sound card disabled, mouse/usb ports disabled, IE failures, Win Explorer failures, to list just those that occur EVERy day and ignoring the occasional failures of Vista I have to contend with. MS should be forced to make sure their operating systems are FULLY tested and fit-for-purpose before inflicting them on a long-suffering public. No amount of UAC tweaking can compensate for the rubbish we have to contend weith under the guise of ‘Vista’

By: awgie

awgie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:57:01 +0000

Not that I am saying that Vista is the ideal OS for everything I do – in fact, there are times I would like to go all the way back to DOS – but there is the time honored axiom “you can’t please all the people all the time.” Back when XP came out, people hated it and called it ‘poorly thought out.’ Over time, a lot of those people switched over to it and discovered to their shock and shame that it was indeed superior to Windows 98. Then MS released Vista, and once again people hated it. While it does have its drawbacks and annoyances, to call it ‘poorly thought out’ or use some similar remark would be to assume that it should have been designed to make everyone happy all the time, and that’s just not feasible. If it were indeed poorly thought out, Windows would not still be one of the biggest selling items in the world, let alone in the IT realm alone.

The last (and only) time I was ever victim to an attack, it was the day before I installed my anti-virus software. That was back on Win98, and was one of the previously mentioned sneaky little attachments that comes through with an image extension, but is really an executable. Since I installed my anti-virus, I have had no troubles, and yet I leave UAC on because of the added protection it provides.

By: xInToxiic

xInToxiic — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:44:41 +0000

Disabled… Just Too Fustrating And Annoying and Ive Got:
Avast! Pro Edition
Windows Firewall (Behind Router So I Don’t Need A Powerful One)
Kaspersky Anti Vir 2009 So Im AOK..

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:57:13 +0000

#5 Don’t install Vista.

No, but seriously, I run the barest minimum of system protect, including a hand-coded firewall.

Why? Because I use common sense. If I want to *cough* purchase *cough* a program, I will not pick the first result, I will look for the result that is proven to work.

I don’t mind spending an extra night or two downloading. The peace of mind from knowing it’s close to safe is much better.

By: Craig Hedrick

Craig Hedrick — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:31:14 +0000

Isnt there any way to get this thing to stop giving me the secure HTTPS warning over and over for the same website? There are one or two that I use often that have some content delivered secure and some otherwise, apparently. For certian websites, cant I just tell it to automatically accept all the content?

By: Spencer

Spencer — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:13:27 +0000

Ya I completely disabled UAC from my Vista Home Premium laptop. I find it just a speed bump because I have some fair good nolage on what I’m doing with my computer. BTW Geek (your real name) do you think you can show how to get rid of the notification on boot up saying your computer is at risk because UAC if off? if would be nice.

By: AlanWade

AlanWade — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:48:57 +0000

I turned it off completely. I cannot stand all them ‘Are You Sure’ warnings.

@ Sam
Turn off the warnings in the security center.

By: ShadowFlare

ShadowFlare — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:16:02 +0000

You could try option two. UAC will still be enabled, but it will automatically accept/allow instead of showing prompts when they would normally be shown.