Comments on: Will Vista UAC be successful for home users? http://tips.vlaurie.com/2007/02/will-vista-uac-be-successful-for-home-users/ News, commentary and tips for safer and easier computing Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:48:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Vic http://tips.vlaurie.com/2007/02/will-vista-uac-be-successful-for-home-users/comment-page-1/#comment-2604 Vic Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:23:50 +0000 http://tips.vlaurie.com/2007/will-vista-uac-be-successful-for-home-users/#comment-2604 If I read her various comments correctly, Kim Komando is not necessarily recommending that everybody turn off UAC but that she personally finds it irritating and has turned it off. Of course, she is an expert user. In one place (http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=2862) she says "It's a good idea. But it does get in the way of knowledgeable users. I've disabled mine." Notice that she says "knowledgable users." I hope that average users will learn to live with UAC but I have doubts. Her reaction just illustrates the point in my post that there are real questions about the way that UAC is implemented. I am puzzled that Microsoft didn't anticipate the practical problems of user reaction. One conspiracy-minded poster somewhere suggested that Microsoft knew that a lot of people would turn UAC off but that all they wanted was to be able to say that they had made Vista very safe and it's the user's fault if there are security problems. If I read her various comments correctly, Kim Komando is not necessarily recommending that everybody turn off UAC but that she personally finds it irritating and has turned it off. Of course, she is an expert user. In one place (http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=2862) she says “It’s a good idea. But it does get in the way of knowledgeable users. I’ve disabled mine.” Notice that she says “knowledgable users.” I hope that average users will learn to live with UAC but I have doubts.

Her reaction just illustrates the point in my post that there are real questions about the way that UAC is implemented. I am puzzled that Microsoft didn’t anticipate the practical problems of user reaction. One conspiracy-minded poster somewhere suggested that Microsoft knew that a lot of people would turn UAC off but that all they wanted was to be able to say that they had made Vista very safe and it’s the user’s fault if there are security problems.

]]> By: joelmay http://tips.vlaurie.com/2007/02/will-vista-uac-be-successful-for-home-users/comment-page-1/#comment-2602 joelmay Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:09:31 +0000 http://tips.vlaurie.com/2007/will-vista-uac-be-successful-for-home-users/#comment-2602 In her on-line column yesterday, Kim Komando states: "Although User Account Control is a security feature, I don't consider it terribly important. You can disable it. I have instructions on my site." In her on-line column yesterday, Kim Komando states:

“Although User Account Control is a security feature, I don’t consider it terribly important. You can disable it. I have instructions on my site.”

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