{"id":34,"date":"2007-02-11T18:19:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T00:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d2.degen.net\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-02-11T18:19:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T00:19:56","slug":"vista-uac-%e2%80%93-this-is-%e2%80%9ctrustworthy-computer%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Vista UAC \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trustworthy computing?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No really I want to do that you stupid Vista UAC!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I find myself screaming at every new Vista install I encounter. At least until this infernal feature is turned off! <\/font><\/p>\n

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\"UAC<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

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If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about, you are one of the lucky ones that has yet to sample this latest effort by Microsoft to safe guard Vista users from their own stupidity – the UAC or \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153User Account Control.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/font><\/p>\n

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In fact UAC has so captured the furry users, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been incorporated into the latest Apple \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hi, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a PC \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a Mac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d TV spots in the US. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s priceless and one of the best in the serious, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve missed it you can see it here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

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We all know and hate malware, viruses, Trojans, the list goes on and on.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>UAC, attempts to prevent these threats from compromising a system in the first place. It attempts to do this by requiring the user to acknowledge actions that could expose a PC to potentiality harmful actions. Now that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sound like such a bad thing, the problem is in its implementation.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Just like the Apple commercial illustrates, practically every action you do will pop up this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Deal with me box\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a rant for another time. The box gives you the option to allow or deny the action in question. The angst here is that you have to actually understand what you are acknowledging or refusing. This idea goes completely against all logic, as a power user is going to not launch the suspect app in the first place, and the novice will simply say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sure, I need that crappy browser plug-in to make my MySpace page crash!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Yeah, good God help us!<\/font><\/p>\n

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As I already stated one of the first things I do when configuring a new Vista install is to turn UAC off all together. Yes, yes, I know this could be opening myself up to untold dangers (all the ones I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always been vulnerable to on XP.) So if you want to be a super 1337 user and play it fast and lose, like your\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s truly, below you will find a step by step crib sheet to turn this D&mn thing off.<\/font><\/p>\n

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As you might have found from poking around the UAC settings are buried in the control panel. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s down in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153User Accounts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d applet. See the screen shots, select the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Turn User Account Control on or off\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"UAC<\/a><\/p>\n

Once in there you can check\/uncheck the UAC – changing this flag will necessitate a reboot.<\/p>\n

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\"UAC<\/a><\/p>\n

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All that is left, enjoy\u00c2\u00a0Vista more without constant UAC popups!<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No really I want to do that you stupid Vista UAC!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I find myself screaming at every new Vista install I encounter. At least until this infernal feature is turned off!     If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about, you are one of the lucky ones that has yet to sample […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}