re: Administrator rights Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 7:11 pm Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Mike Stoll (2 messages posted) Ok, fair enough, but if you're going to advocate leaving UAC turned on then please offer a solution to the administrator problem without turning UAC off! I was unable to find a solution to this problem in Vista that did not require turning off UAC. On Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5:26 am, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote: >Since you are new to 7 (which is Vista Second Edition, BTW), you probably don't understand >just how BIG a mistake you are making by turning off User Account Control. > >I was at a Microsoft/AMD event last week and one of the presentations was on the >under-the-hood features of 7. Of course one of the main topics was UAC, because >UAC in Vista was the most significant and effective new security feature, and UAC >is tweaked in 7 to be just as effective but a little more user friendly. > >The presenter said that according to MS's internal studies, UAC is the overwhelming >reason that Vista as an OS suffers from 70% fewer malware infections than does XP. Written in response to: re: Administrator rights (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5:26 am) Responses to this message: re: Administrator rights (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 8:04 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Administrator rights (Robert C: Sun, Nov 1, 2009, 10:02 am) re: Administrator rights (Steve: Sun, Nov 1, 2009, 11:12 am) re: Administrator rights (Robert C: Sun, Nov 1, 2009, 5:34 pm) re: Administrator rights (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Nov 3, 2009, 5:26 am) re: Administrator rights (Mike Stoll: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 7:11 pm) re: Administrator rights (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 8:04 pm) re: Administrator rights (Mike Stoll: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 8:51 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 7 Discussion Forum