Vista is much nicer if you turn off UAC

I hated Vista--until I turned off UAC. This solved a whole
LOT of problems, and made Vista a useable operating system
again. UAC breaks a lot of stuff that it's not entirely
obvious will be broken. Turn off UAC, and programs start
working again like they're supposed to, and that annoying
message, "Windows needs your permission to continue," no
longer shows up. I no longer have the urge to heave my Vista
laptop out the window as far as I can in disgust. I no longer
have a huge desire to downgrade my Vista computer back to
Windows XP.

(Of course turning off UAC is less secure, and I know some people
prefer to keep UAC on, but I figure with UAC off the OS isn't
any less secure than Windows XP was. Always have an anti-virus
program running.)

To turn off UAC:
1. Go to Control Panel
2. Open User Accounts
3. select "Turn User Account Control on or off"
4 Remove the checkmark from the "turn user account control on/off" section
5. UAC is now disabled.

More with Vista:
How to set the start menu back to Windows XP style:
CONTROL PANEL -> TASKBAR AND START MENU -> START MENU(tab) -> Classic
Start menu


Don't like the new look or color of Vista's Aero?
Stardock WindowBlinds
http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds

Some fun links:
Mac vs. PC security
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/ap...ty_480x376.mov


South Park parody of Mac vs. PC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YSfXdPm0kE


You can use a free program called DoOver which is a keystroke and mouse
recorder. Download it at:

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/#DoOver

There's DoOver.exe & DoOver.ahk . You only need to download the
DoOver.exe . This is not an install file; this is the actual program.

Run DoOver.exe

an icon appears in the system tray.

Then:
Left CTRL+F12 - Start & stop recording
Left CTRL+F5 - playback recorded

DoOver is written using the free AutoHotKey Scripting language.
AutoHotKey is not required to run DoOver. But you can look at AutoHotKey
as a free program with a scripting language. AutoHotKey Macros are plain
text files with .AHK file extension.

http://www.autohotkey.com/
http://www.autohotkey.net/

AutoHotKey comes with an AutoScriptWriter (recorder), but there's
apparently no documentation on how to use it.

There's also a new Beta replacement for AutoScriptWriter at
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23671

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:28:01 -0800, David Deley <>
wrote:

>I hated Vista--until I turned off UAC. This solved a whole
>LOT of problems, and made Vista a useable operating system
>again. UAC breaks a lot of stuff that it's not entirely
>obvious will be broken. Turn off UAC, and programs start
>working again like they're supposed to, and that annoying
>message, "Windows needs your permission to continue," no
>longer shows up. I no longer have the urge to heave my Vista
>laptop out the window as far as I can in disgust. I no longer
>have a huge desire to downgrade my Vista computer back to
>Windows XP.
>
>(Of course turning off UAC is less secure, and I know some people
>prefer to keep UAC on, but I figure with UAC off the OS isn't
>any less secure than Windows XP was. Always have an anti-virus
>program running.)
>
>To turn off UAC:
>1. Go to Control Panel
>2. Open User Accounts
>3. select "Turn User Account Control on or off"
>4 Remove the checkmark from the "turn user account control on/off" section
>5. UAC is now disabled.
>
>More with Vista:
>How to set the start menu back to Windows XP style:
>CONTROL PANEL -> TASKBAR AND START MENU -> START MENU(tab) -> Classic
>Start menu
>
>
>Don't like the new look or color of Vista's Aero?
>Stardock WindowBlinds
>http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds
>
>Some fun links:
>Mac vs. PC security
>http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/ap...ty_480x376.mov
>
>
>South Park parody of Mac vs. PC
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YSfXdPm0kE
>
>
>You can use a free program called DoOver which is a keystroke and mouse
>recorder. Download it at:
>
>http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/#DoOver
>
>There's DoOver.exe & DoOver.ahk . You only need to download the
>DoOver.exe . This is not an install file; this is the actual program.
>
>Run DoOver.exe
>
>an icon appears in the system tray.
>
>Then:
>Left CTRL+F12 - Start & stop recording
>Left CTRL+F5 - playback recorded
>
>DoOver is written using the free AutoHotKey Scripting language.
>AutoHotKey is not required to run DoOver. But you can look at AutoHotKey
>as a free program with a scripting language. AutoHotKey Macros are plain
>text files with .AHK file extension.
>
>http://www.autohotkey.com/
>http://www.autohotkey.net/
>
>AutoHotKey comes with an AutoScriptWriter (recorder), but there's
>apparently no documentation on how to use it.
>
>There's also a new Beta replacement for AutoScriptWriter at
>http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23671

A voice of reason, yeah!

Well if you are going to disable everything, change everything to look and
feel like XP, then why the heck have Vista at all?

--
All the best,
SG
"David Deley" <> wrote in message
news:6Vsjj.1764$...
>I hated Vista--until I turned off UAC. This solved a whole
> LOT of problems, and made Vista a useable operating system
> again. UAC breaks a lot of stuff that it's not entirely
> obvious will be broken. Turn off UAC, and programs start
> working again like they're supposed to, and that annoying
> message, "Windows needs your permission to continue," no
> longer shows up. I no longer have the urge to heave my Vista
> laptop out the window as far as I can in disgust. I no longer
> have a huge desire to downgrade my Vista computer back to
> Windows XP.
>
> (Of course turning off UAC is less secure, and I know some people
> prefer to keep UAC on, but I figure with UAC off the OS isn't
> any less secure than Windows XP was. Always have an anti-virus
> program running.)
>
> To turn off UAC:
> 1. Go to Control Panel
> 2. Open User Accounts
> 3. select "Turn User Account Control on or off"
> 4 Remove the checkmark from the "turn user account control on/off"
> section
> 5. UAC is now disabled.
>
> More with Vista:
> How to set the start menu back to Windows XP style:
> CONTROL PANEL -> TASKBAR AND START MENU -> START MENU(tab) -> Classic
> Start menu
>
>
> Don't like the new look or color of Vista's Aero?
> Stardock WindowBlinds
> http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds
>
> Some fun links:
> Mac vs. PC security
> http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/ap...ty_480x376.mov
>
>
> South Park parody of Mac vs. PC
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YSfXdPm0kE
>
>
> You can use a free program called DoOver which is a keystroke and mouse
> recorder. Download it at:
>
> http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/#DoOver
>
> There's DoOver.exe & DoOver.ahk . You only need to download the DoOver.exe
> . This is not an install file; this is the actual program.
>
> Run DoOver.exe
>
> an icon appears in the system tray.
>
> Then:
> Left CTRL+F12 - Start & stop recording
> Left CTRL+F5 - playback recorded
>
> DoOver is written using the free AutoHotKey Scripting language. AutoHotKey
> is not required to run DoOver. But you can look at AutoHotKey as a free
> program with a scripting language. AutoHotKey Macros are plain text files
> with .AHK file extension.
>
> http://www.autohotkey.com/
> http://www.autohotkey.net/
>
> AutoHotKey comes with an AutoScriptWriter (recorder), but there's
> apparently no documentation on how to use it.
>
> There's also a new Beta replacement for AutoScriptWriter at
> http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23671

why do you hate something that is there to protect you? To make your every
minute of your life a horrible torture? You don't like things popping in
your face all the time, that you ignore anyway, and your hand has been
subconsciously trained, after tens of thousands of clicks, to blindly press
the OK button anyway?

WHYY?????? WHy do you say this???? Whyyyyy???????

This is one of the reasons Vista is said to be MORE SECURE>> AHAHAHAHA..

vista is not more secure than XP.. its more STUPID!

Vista is full of bad ideas... in fact the only think I like about vista is
the thumbnails.. LOL

And linux does that better ! lol

"David Deley" <> wrote in message
news:6Vsjj.1764$...
>I hated Vista--until I turned off UAC. This solved a whole
> LOT of problems, and made Vista a useable operating system
> again. UAC breaks a lot of stuff that it's not entirely
> obvious will be broken. Turn off UAC, and programs start
> working again like they're supposed to, and that annoying
> message, "Windows needs your permission to continue," no
> longer shows up. I no longer have the urge to heave my Vista
> laptop out the window as far as I can in disgust. I no longer
> have a huge desire to downgrade my Vista computer back to
> Windows XP.
>
> (Of course turning off UAC is less secure, and I know some people
> prefer to keep UAC on, but I figure with UAC off the OS isn't
> any less secure than Windows XP was. Always have an anti-virus
> program running.)
>
> To turn off UAC:
> 1. Go to Control Panel
> 2. Open User Accounts
> 3. select "Turn User Account Control on or off"
> 4 Remove the checkmark from the "turn user account control on/off"
> section
> 5. UAC is now disabled.
>
> More with Vista:
> How to set the start menu back to Windows XP style:
> CONTROL PANEL -> TASKBAR AND START MENU -> START MENU(tab) -> Classic
> Start menu
>
>
> Don't like the new look or color of Vista's Aero?
> Stardock WindowBlinds
> http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds
>
> Some fun links:
> Mac vs. PC security
> http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/ap...ty_480x376.mov
>
>
> South Park parody of Mac vs. PC
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YSfXdPm0kE
>
>
> You can use a free program called DoOver which is a keystroke and mouse
> recorder. Download it at:
>
> http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/#DoOver
>
> There's DoOver.exe & DoOver.ahk . You only need to download the DoOver.exe
> . This is not an install file; this is the actual program.
>
> Run DoOver.exe
>
> an icon appears in the system tray.
>
> Then:
> Left CTRL+F12 - Start & stop recording
> Left CTRL+F5 - playback recorded
>
> DoOver is written using the free AutoHotKey Scripting language. AutoHotKey
> is not required to run DoOver. But you can look at AutoHotKey as a free
> program with a scripting language. AutoHotKey Macros are plain text files
> with .AHK file extension.
>
> http://www.autohotkey.com/
> http://www.autohotkey.net/
>
> AutoHotKey comes with an AutoScriptWriter (recorder), but there's
> apparently no documentation on how to use it.
>
> There's also a new Beta replacement for AutoScriptWriter at
> http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23671

SG wrote:
> Well if you are going to disable everything, change everything to look
> and feel like XP, then why the heck have Vista at all?
>
gee, brainiac, maybe, just maybe Vista came on a new machine the OP
purchased.

That is a GOOOOOOD point.

"SG" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Well if you are going to disable everything, change everything to look and
> feel like XP, then why the heck have Vista at all?
>
> --
> All the best,
> SG
> "David Deley" <> wrote in message
> news:6Vsjj.1764$...
>>I hated Vista--until I turned off UAC. This solved a whole
>> LOT of problems, and made Vista a useable operating system
>> again. UAC breaks a lot of stuff that it's not entirely
>> obvious will be broken. Turn off UAC, and programs start
>> working again like they're supposed to, and that annoying
>> message, "Windows needs your permission to continue," no
>> longer shows up. I no longer have the urge to heave my Vista
>> laptop out the window as far as I can in disgust. I no longer
>> have a huge desire to downgrade my Vista computer back to
>> Windows XP.
>>
>> (Of course turning off UAC is less secure, and I know some people
>> prefer to keep UAC on, but I figure with UAC off the OS isn't
>> any less secure than Windows XP was. Always have an anti-virus
>> program running.)
>>
>> To turn off UAC:
>> 1. Go to Control Panel
>> 2. Open User Accounts
>> 3. select "Turn User Account Control on or off"
>> 4 Remove the checkmark from the "turn user account control on/off"
>> section
>> 5. UAC is now disabled.
>>
>> More with Vista:
>> How to set the start menu back to Windows XP style:
>> CONTROL PANEL -> TASKBAR AND START MENU -> START MENU(tab) -> Classic
>> Start menu
>>
>>
>> Don't like the new look or color of Vista's Aero?
>> Stardock WindowBlinds
>> http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds
>>
>> Some fun links:
>> Mac vs. PC security
>> http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/ap...ty_480x376.mov
>>
>>
>> South Park parody of Mac vs. PC
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YSfXdPm0kE
>>
>>
>> You can use a free program called DoOver which is a keystroke and mouse
>> recorder. Download it at:
>>
>> http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/#DoOver
>>
>> There's DoOver.exe & DoOver.ahk . You only need to download the
>> DoOver.exe . This is not an install file; this is the actual program.
>>
>> Run DoOver.exe
>>
>> an icon appears in the system tray.
>>
>> Then:
>> Left CTRL+F12 - Start & stop recording
>> Left CTRL+F5 - playback recorded
>>
>> DoOver is written using the free AutoHotKey Scripting language.
>> AutoHotKey is not required to run DoOver. But you can look at AutoHotKey
>> as a free program with a scripting language. AutoHotKey Macros are plain
>> text files with .AHK file extension.
>>
>> http://www.autohotkey.com/
>> http://www.autohotkey.net/
>>
>> AutoHotKey comes with an AutoScriptWriter (recorder), but there's
>> apparently no documentation on how to use it.
>>
>> There's also a new Beta replacement for AutoScriptWriter at
>> http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23671
>

"John Smith" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Snipped delirious ranting<

You don't even have Vista , dinghead , so you don't even know what your
talking about.

"alexB" <> wrote in message
news:...
> That is a GOOOOOOD point.
>
> "SG" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Well if you are going to disable everything, change everything to look
>> and feel like XP, then why the heck have Vista at all?
>>
>> --
>> All the best,
>> SG
>> "David Deley" <> wrote in message
>> news:6Vsjj.1764$...
>>>I hated Vista--until I turned off UAC. This solved a whole
>>> LOT of problems, and made Vista a useable operating system
>>> again. UAC breaks a lot of stuff that it's not entirely
>>> obvious will be broken. Turn off UAC, and programs start
>>> working again like they're supposed to, and that annoying
>>> message, "Windows needs your permission to continue," no
>>> longer shows up. I no longer have the urge to heave my Vista
>>> laptop out the window as far as I can in disgust. I no longer
>>> have a huge desire to downgrade my Vista computer back to
>>> Windows XP.
>>>
>>> (Of course turning off UAC is less secure, and I know some people
>>> prefer to keep UAC on, but I figure with UAC off the OS isn't
>>> any less secure than Windows XP was. Always have an anti-virus
>>> program running.)
>>>
>>> To turn off UAC:
>>> 1. Go to Control Panel
>>> 2. Open User Accounts
>>> 3. select "Turn User Account Control on or off"
>>> 4 Remove the checkmark from the "turn user account control on/off"
>>> section
>>> 5. UAC is now disabled.
>>>
>>> More with Vista:
>>> How to set the start menu back to Windows XP style:
>>> CONTROL PANEL -> TASKBAR AND START MENU -> START MENU(tab) -> Classic
>>> Start menu
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't like the new look or color of Vista's Aero?
>>> Stardock WindowBlinds
>>> http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds
>>>
>>> Some fun links:
>>> Mac vs. PC security
>>> http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/ap...ty_480x376.mov
>>>
>>>
>>> South Park parody of Mac vs. PC
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YSfXdPm0kE
>>>
>>>
>>> You can use a free program called DoOver which is a keystroke and mouse
>>> recorder. Download it at:
>>>
>>> http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/#DoOver
>>>
>>> There's DoOver.exe & DoOver.ahk . You only need to download the
>>> DoOver.exe . This is not an install file; this is the actual program.
>>>
>>> Run DoOver.exe
>>>
>>> an icon appears in the system tray.
>>>
>>> Then:
>>> Left CTRL+F12 - Start & stop recording
>>> Left CTRL+F5 - playback recorded
>>>
>>> DoOver is written using the free AutoHotKey Scripting language.
>>> AutoHotKey is not required to run DoOver. But you can look at AutoHotKey
>>> as a free program with a scripting language. AutoHotKey Macros are plain
>>> text files with .AHK file extension.
>>>
>>> http://www.autohotkey.com/
>>> http://www.autohotkey.net/
>>>
>>> AutoHotKey comes with an AutoScriptWriter (recorder), but there's
>>> apparently no documentation on how to use it.
>>>
>>> There's also a new Beta replacement for AutoScriptWriter at
>>> http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23671
>>
>


Not really. Turning off UAC doesn't return Vista to XP..

--
Mike Hall - MVP
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx

"SG" <> wrote in
news::

> Well if you are going to disable everything, change everything to look
> and feel like XP, then why the heck have Vista at all?

What an overblown and exaggerated conclusion to the OP that is.

Disabling UAC is disabling everything ?

And changing the start menu to classic menu is changing the look and feel
of everything back to XP ?

UAC is poorly implemented and the Start Menu gets varied reviews anyway.

You attached your post to the wrong poster. I never advocated that, however,
contrary to what you are saying I've seen such statements at official MS
websites although perhaps careful reading could have filtered in some
limitations. Perhaps they meant: return to XP in some specific sense but I
do not recall.

"Mike Hall - MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "alexB" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> That is a GOOOOOOD point.
>>
>> "SG" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Well if you are going to disable everything, change everything to look
>>> and feel like XP, then why the heck have Vista at all?
>>>
>>> --
>>> All the best,
>>> SG
>>> "David Deley" <> wrote in message
>>> news:6Vsjj.1764$...
>>>>I hated Vista--until I turned off UAC. This solved a whole
>>>> LOT of problems, and made Vista a useable operating system
>>>> again. UAC breaks a lot of stuff that it's not entirely
>>>> obvious will be broken. Turn off UAC, and programs start
>>>> working again like they're supposed to, and that annoying
>>>> message, "Windows needs your permission to continue," no
>>>> longer shows up. I no longer have the urge to heave my Vista
>>>> laptop out the window as far as I can in disgust. I no longer
>>>> have a huge desire to downgrade my Vista computer back to
>>>> Windows XP.
>>>>
>>>> (Of course turning off UAC is less secure, and I know some people
>>>> prefer to keep UAC on, but I figure with UAC off the OS isn't
>>>> any less secure than Windows XP was. Always have an anti-virus
>>>> program running.)
>>>>
>>>> To turn off UAC:
>>>> 1. Go to Control Panel
>>>> 2. Open User Accounts
>>>> 3. select "Turn User Account Control on or off"
>>>> 4 Remove the checkmark from the "turn user account control on/off"
>>>> section
>>>> 5. UAC is now disabled.
>>>>
>>>> More with Vista:
>>>> How to set the start menu back to Windows XP style:
>>>> CONTROL PANEL -> TASKBAR AND START MENU -> START MENU(tab) -> Classic
>>>> Start menu
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Don't like the new look or color of Vista's Aero?
>>>> Stardock WindowBlinds
>>>> http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds
>>>>
>>>> Some fun links:
>>>> Mac vs. PC security
>>>> http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/ap...ty_480x376.mov
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> South Park parody of Mac vs. PC
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YSfXdPm0kE
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You can use a free program called DoOver which is a keystroke and mouse
>>>> recorder. Download it at:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/#DoOver
>>>>
>>>> There's DoOver.exe & DoOver.ahk . You only need to download the
>>>> DoOver.exe . This is not an install file; this is the actual program.
>>>>
>>>> Run DoOver.exe
>>>>
>>>> an icon appears in the system tray.
>>>>
>>>> Then:
>>>> Left CTRL+F12 - Start & stop recording
>>>> Left CTRL+F5 - playback recorded
>>>>
>>>> DoOver is written using the free AutoHotKey Scripting language.
>>>> AutoHotKey is not required to run DoOver. But you can look at
>>>> AutoHotKey as a free program with a scripting language. AutoHotKey
>>>> Macros are plain text files with .AHK file extension.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.autohotkey.com/
>>>> http://www.autohotkey.net/
>>>>
>>>> AutoHotKey comes with an AutoScriptWriter (recorder), but there's
>>>> apparently no documentation on how to use it.
>>>>
>>>> There's also a new Beta replacement for AutoScriptWriter at
>>>> http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23671
>>>
>>
>
>
> Not really. Turning off UAC doesn't return Vista to XP..
>
> --
> Mike Hall - MVP
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx
>
>
>
>