Comments on: Is Vista Less Secure than Windows XP Because UAC Sucks? http://www.vistareview.info/2007/03/20/is-vista-less-secure-than-windows-xp-because-uac-sucks/ My experiences and tips, tricks, help, resources, and bugs found upgrading to Windows Vista Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:13:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Topaz http://www.vistareview.info/2007/03/20/is-vista-less-secure-than-windows-xp-because-uac-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1973 Topaz Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:31:26 +0000 http://www.vistareview.info/2007/03/20/is-vista-less-secure-than-windows-xp-because-uac-sucks/#comment-1973 Press Windows + R, enter secpol.msc and hit enter Click on Security Settings, Local Policies Security Options, double-click User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode, choose Elevate without prompting, click ok. This setting becomes immediately active. Test it by launching an application that used to give you a prompt and you will see that it now start without warning you. Now such applications will work smoothly and cleanly in Vista just as it did in XP. This leaves Vista User Account Control enabled and tinkers just a bit with some of the settings of UAC instead of completely disabling the UAC function which disables the complete security feature in Windows Vista, which is not a wise thing to do. Press Windows + R, enter secpol.msc and hit enter Click on Security Settings, Local Policies Security Options, double-click User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for administrators in Admin Approval Mode, choose Elevate without prompting, click ok. This setting becomes immediately active. Test it by launching an application that used to give you a prompt and you will see that it now start without warning you. Now such applications will work smoothly and cleanly in Vista just as it did in XP.

This leaves Vista User Account Control enabled and tinkers just a bit with some of the settings of UAC instead of completely disabling the UAC function which disables the complete security feature in Windows Vista, which is not a wise thing to do.

]]> By: Software Behaving Badly : DevTopics http://www.vistareview.info/2007/03/20/is-vista-less-secure-than-windows-xp-because-uac-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-1823 Software Behaving Badly : DevTopics Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:54:00 +0000 http://www.vistareview.info/2007/03/20/is-vista-less-secure-than-windows-xp-because-uac-sucks/#comment-1823 [...] hard to imagine the security experts at Microsoft actually believe UAC in its present form is a good security solution.  Having watched many users in action on Vista, it's only a matter of minutes before most [...] [...] hard to imagine the security experts at Microsoft actually believe UAC in its present form is a good security solution.  Having watched many users in action on Vista, it’s only a matter of minutes before most [...]

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