
By Tom Espiner
Published: Monday 14 April 2008
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graphic designer
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I've just switched UAC off. I wasn't at all happy about doing it, but even elevating myself to a proper administrator account, and then setting UAC to automatically elevate prompts to administrator level, didn't stop the blinking thing saying"are you sure" all the time. Microsoft are in la-la land (but this we knew!) if they think we don't just ignore their prompts. I don't trust Microsoft to flag something as a true security issue, I assume it's all just part of their mission to take control of my machine!
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Roy Lambert
Annoy users? Microsoft? no change there then!!
Keith Mawdsley
I've just switched UAC off. I wasn't at all happy...
Anonymous
Why don't they clean up their own act first. I use...
Stuart Downs
Another even better reason NOT to go to absolutely...
Nick Cole
"Seven per cent of all prompts are cancelled. User...
Joe Whitehead
While annoying users to achieve your goal is proba...
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