Run msconfig, go to the tools tab, disable UAC (user account control), type exit in the dos window, reboot your computer

Aye, put there for a reason but it's just plain annoying. If you know what you are doing then it's perfectly safe to disable UAC. Rumour is that Microsoft are planning a patch to make it less intrusive.

It's really strange that people hounded Microsoft about security on XP and the first thing they do with Vista is turn off security.  The UAC is put there for a reason.

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White Flag wrote:

Aye, put there for a reason but it's just plain annoying. If you know what you are doing then it's perfectly safe to disable UAC. Rumour is that Microsoft are planning a patch to make it less intrusive.

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Annoying is GOOD!  It keeps you on your toes.  Yes I have Vista and yes it is running.  I'll bet the majority of you also allow all popups to?

Thanks Tech.  I figured it had to be something simple like that.

jmwills....this is true.  But the more experienced user doesn't need to be asked whether or not I want to open a program every time I open it.  It's redundant and uneccessary.  Security outside the pc is one thing and should be better controlled by the OS.  But these allow or deny popups are really quite annoying.  Let me ask you this...do you have Windows Vista?  If so, have you disabled these on your machine?

Annoying is by definition bad, not good. An annoyance is something which stops you from doing what you want to do.

 

Why do you have to submit yourself to three warning screens just to create a new folder ? How can this possibly be deemed to be a good thing ?

Plain and simple, it prohibits scripts (bots) from having access to the kernel.

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jmwills wrote:

Annoying is GOOD!  It keeps you on your toes.  Yes I have Vista and yes it is running.  I'll bet the majority of you also allow all popups to?

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What are popups?  Never seen any.

Bot ? I have never allowed a bot access to my kernel. You may have me confused, but I am not that type of boy.

 

Please, accept the point. Is it unacceptable that to create a new folder you have to be challenged three or for times ? I am am sure that if you turn off your Microsoft / Dell hat you will agree that the answer is : NO.

I do not have a "Microsoft or Dell  hat", I do however have a security hat.  The nature of my job makes me affirm every time I log onto a system that I know this is a DOD system, my activities can and will be monitored, and that my system will be scanned for malicious activites.

 

So clicking ONCE to affirm that I want a program to install on Vista is no big deal.

jm...we're not talking about DOD computers here.  Clicking once would not be a bad thing if you weren't doing the same thing over and over.  i.e.  If you're opening Word for the first time and it asks you if you want to cancel or allow and you only had to click for the one instance, that would be fine.  If you're in and out of Word all day, like I frequently am, clicking every single time you open Word would just plain be annoying.  Where is the security risk?  In my opinion security on a home pc should be invisible/seamless.  For instance, if you have a password enabled on your system, then the system should recognize who you are and, depend on your user level, should not prompt for you for any permission.  Or, at the very least, should only prompt you once (ever) when you open something new.  Just my .02 worth.

 

I've always had good security on my home pc's and only had one instance many years ago where I got invaded by a worm and had to format my hard drive.  That was before security was really addressed in operating systems and in the virus protection programs.  Since then, I have always kept my subscriptions up to date, kept my firewall active and my network secure.  Like stealing a car, if a hacker wants in my system bad enough, he/she will get in and there's not much more I can do than I already do.  To get repeatedly asked permission to open a program or a window or whatever other task I do is ridiculous and should be more easily disabled.

 

Y'all have fun arguing the subject.  I'm done.  :)

Application such as Word do not invoke the UAC control process.