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wolrah
May 8, 2006
what?

Lum posted:

Any others?

Movey and the game of musical offices?

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wolrah
May 8, 2006
what?

frogbert posted:

My problem with this is that disabling UAC doesn't do anything. It effectively just automatically clicks "no" on each UAC prompt. You don't get any more permissions, stuff just fails silently.

This also makes it a bitch to do desktop support for too because you don't get a prompt for administrator credentials when you need to mess with some settings.

Typically disabling UAC goes hand-in-hand with local admin access, so it effectively grants apps the same open access they'd have had on a default XP setup.

There's no excuse for it these days, anything that hasn't been updated in years obviously isn't changing or likely supported, so it shouldn't be hard to determine what specific permissions it actually needs and grant those instead. Anything still under active development which requires or even recommends that UAC be disabled on the other hand is simply a steaming pile of incompetence, from those developing it to those refusing to replace it with something else and sometimes those in IT who aren't properly explaining why its inexcusably bad and should not be allowed to continue.

wolrah
May 8, 2006
what?
I wonder why the Kaspersky server stopped working...

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