UAC

[Char Jackson]

So you have no visitors who might, in an idle moment start looking? You have
NO personal and sensitive data on the machine?

Who in the heck has visitors who idly wander over to a running
computer and start poking around? Might be time to evaluate what kind
of people you invite over.

 

[Char Jackson]

Well I don't know what you are doing, or what might be strange about your
computer set-up - I use all those and the ONLY time I got UAC was on first
installing - that was that. I don't get it on running anything. At all.

If people want to turn off what they consider to be an annoying
behavior, it would be nice if you just let them instead of demanding
to know what they are doing or why they want to do it. I'm just
saying...

 

[Gordon]

If people want to turn off what they consider to be an annoying
behavior, it would be nice if you just let them instead of demanding
to know what they are doing or why they want to do it. I'm just
saying...

Spoken like a true Windows sop......all the secure OSs like UNIX, Linux
etc have had this for YEARS - no-one complains about it because it's
there for a REASON - protection against rogue applications.
Now Windows has it, everyone complains! (And boots straight to the
desktop without any thought of security either).

As I said - MILLIONS of users don't GET UAC when running a Vista or Win
7 compatible application as a Standard User, therefore there is
something wrong with the OP's setup, which he ought to fix rather than
by-passing security...

 

[chrisv]

Spoken like a true Windows sop......all the secure OSs like UNIX,
Linux etc have had this for YEARS - no-one complains about it because
it's there for a REASON - protection against rogue applications.
Now Windows has it, everyone complains! (And boots straight to the
desktop without any thought of security either).

As I said - MILLIONS of users don't GET UAC when running a Vista or
Win 7 compatible application as a Standard User, therefore there is
something wrong with the OP's setup, which he ought to fix rather than
by-passing security...

So, you allow anyone in your house to make changes to your system? And
linsux prevents that how?

 

[Gordon]

So, you allow anyone in your house to make changes to your system? And
linsux prevents that how?

By asking for a password before any System changes are authorised. Just
like UAC in fact...

 

[Lord Vetinari]

By asking for a password before any System changes are authorised. Just
like UAC in fact...

Heheh It's a bit annoying, at times, but I prefer the security.