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November 21st, 2007, 04:47 AM
#41
Originally Posted by Moira
LOL, I very much doubt he has UAC enabled! That would drive anyone nuts before they'd had Vista longer than about a week! One gripe I do have is that it takes off the IE protection when you disable UAC which is a bit petty.
Sure it's annoying when you first get your computer and you're installing many programs and configuring many system-wide settings, but after that it pretty much stays out of your way. (That was my experience, anyways.) It actually seemed to me like a decent way to implement the principle of least privilege on a mass-market scale.
nihil:
Sheesh, nihil. You sure have a lot of posts now.
- Xierox
"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
-- Søren Kierkegaard
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November 21st, 2007, 04:57 AM
#42
I'm sorry but I just couldn't stand it before I'd installed even a quarter of my programs I don't need a box asking me whether I want to carry out an action when I've just clicked OK to do so!
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November 23rd, 2007, 10:04 AM
#43
Originally Posted by Moira
I'm sorry but I just couldn't stand it before I'd installed even a quarter of my programs I don't need a box asking me whether I want to carry out an action when I've just clicked OK to do so!
Fair enough, but you should realize that it's not asking you to confirm your action; it's asking your if you want to allow a certain program access to system files or administrative privileges. This would be useful, for example, if malware exploited your browser (presuming it's not IE 7 running in Protected Mode) and tried to write to the C:\Program Files or C:\Windows directories.
For me, this is a much easier method of running with restricted privileges than I have open to me with Windows XP. (With Windows XP, I run as a User and log into my administrator account to administrate my machine.)
Cheers,
- X
"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
-- Søren Kierkegaard
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November 23rd, 2007, 02:33 PM
#44
No, poxy IE won't run in Protected Mode if you turn off UAC which to my mind is just MS way of persuading people not to! But I'm sorry, I really could not stand it.
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November 23rd, 2007, 07:04 PM
#45
I realize that IE will not run in Protected Mode without UAC. I am under the impression that this is not because Microsoft arbitrarily decided to require UAC to be turned on for it to work, but because Protected Mode is dependent upon UAC in some way. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/09/528963.aspx
- X
"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
-- Søren Kierkegaard
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November 23rd, 2007, 08:56 PM
#46
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November 24th, 2007, 02:20 PM
#47
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November 29th, 2007, 04:53 PM
#48
How about Volume Shadow Copy service?
It can be an annoyance when you don't realize that it is discretely backing information up and hiding it so you can use the features of the UAC that allow users to 'undelete' or 'undo' files or system changes.
For explanation for those that are like me and love to know the How and Why - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa381497.aspx
About the dissappearing disk space issues, have you checked the Disk Cleanup and deleted all but the most recent restore points?
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...k-cleanup.html
Hope some or all of that helps.
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November 30th, 2007, 03:01 AM
#49
I'll pass on those links to my friend thanks zallison, my own space became accounted for once I realised I hadn't actually globally unhidden system files.
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December 1st, 2007, 06:51 AM
#50
Originally Posted by zallison
It can be an annoyance when you don't realize that it is discretely backing information up and hiding it so you can use the features of the UAC that allow users to 'undelete' or 'undo' files or system changes.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think UAC and the Shadow Copy feature are related or dependent upon each other in any way?
It's not exactly hidden. Right-clicking a file and clicking "Restore previous versions..." is hardly hidden. If you don't like it, you could always just stop the Service from running. (At least, I assume it's a service. I'm not on Vista machine, so I can't doublecheck.)
And besides that, it's designed to take up as small as space as possible. If you change a file, it backs up only the changed section not the entire file again.
- X
"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
-- Søren Kierkegaard
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