Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thorsten Kampe > wrote: > >> * Lawrence D'Oliveiro (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:18:10 +1300) >> >>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thorsten Kampe >>> wrote: >>>> * Lawrence D'Oliveiro (Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:13:46 +1300) >>>> >>>>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel Claveau - >>>>> NoSpam SVP ; merci wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Another way is to de-activate UAC. >>>>> Please don't be stupid! >>>> He's not stupid. Disabling UAC is the recommended way to get rid of >>>> these problems. >>> Disabling UAC is NOT recommended. >> YOU don't recommend it. I don't "recommend" it either - all the people I >> know (and this includes Microsoft techsupport people) do it anyway >> without recommendation. > > I find that hard to believe. Any company that would spend so much time and > effort developing and promoting such a feature on one hand, while quietly > disabling it on the other hand, would have to be sick.
Well, that's certainly a more realistic assessment of Microsoft. Though in fact they are just a big company with a huge backward compatibility anchor. Just in case you jumped in without reading this whole thread, I repeat: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080411-vistas-uac-security-prompt-was-designed-to-annoy-you.html regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
