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Pros and Cons of Vistas UAC

Monday, October 15th, 2007

If you have a Windows Vista machine, you are quite familiar with the User Access Control (UAC). Either you hate it or you love it. In my experience, advanced users don’t like it while beginners to intermediate users like it.Vista UAC
For those of you who either use a previous version of Windows, Mac OS X, or a Linux box, UAC is a new hassle feature of Windows Vista where the whole screen darkens and a pop-up window appears asking you if you are sure you want to do the action you initiated.

The idea behind this is that if a virus or spyware program tried to run something potentially harmful, you would have a visual notification of it and you would have to give permission for the action to go through. The only drawback is that you are interrupted. Pros and Cons of Vista’s UAC | The Daily Fuzz

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