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| Here is the answer you need for the UAC problem:
[Moderator] Link removed.
Note: This topic is not about disabling UAC. This topic is about stopping the screen from darkening when UAC pops up. That is actually, believe it or not, a "feature" that MS calls Secure Desktop. It darkens because MS intentionally prevents you from doing anything else until you respond to the UAC prompt.
Disabling Secure Desktop doesn't disable UAC.
Disabling UAC does more than just stop popups, it also makes your machine vulnerable to the same kind of viruses and malware as back in the XP days. Not only that, it increases the risk of your machine hanging or seizing. How? Any not-written-specifically for-Vista application that needs to write to the registry or needs to write to Program Files, is going to need elevated rights to do that. By disabling UAC, you shut off the process to request those rights. The result is that these applications will fail silently, sometimes causing Vista to "hang" or seize in the process.
So, please don't post links to easy ways to disable UAC. We don't want to encourage this. |
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| Jason (2/23/2007)I hate that screen flicker. you have a problem with your graphics card driver, because on my Vista the screen does NOT flick and the UAC prompt is almost instantaneous, no flicker problems. I would not recommend to disable the 'secure desktop' because it protects from the shatter attacks such as the window-messages passing between the processes |
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| [I would not recommend to disable the 'secure desktop' because it protects from the shatter attacks such as thewindow-messages passing between the processes
You raise a valid point -- and I will modify the original post to mention the increased security exposure of doing this.
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