It does more than that though, it also restricts programs access to sensitive areas, so a program basically can't trash your system without you allowing it through UAC. I have not had a problem yet and my system runs only what I need it to run, quickly and smoothly. I turn it off as soon as I install the OS.
Security by endless modal dialogs is no security at all. Normal users just get used to clicking even more 'OK' buttons after a couple of weeks or so. EDIT: Wow, down-voted huh? Must be some Microsoft employees around here Of course it should remain on on a test machine, probably should have mentioned that.
I find it extremely annoying and turn it off at all times, I trust myself enough to not have to have fail safes in place. If I screw up and run some dodgy application that's my bad and I'll live with the consequences. Meanwhile I'm not spending 5 minutes of my day clicking though some damn annoying popups. I have it off, but that's because I trust myself entirely too much.
Its funny though, it seems to make the average user I live in Jourdanton TX, we have a lot of "average users" here in the middle of nowhere afraid of the control panel, because it causes all these weird prompts to come up and wants their password every 5 minutes if they start to poke around. That said, I think it depends on your level of expertise with the system. On your dev machine, yes, definitely turn the darn thing off.
I haven't gone a day this week without needing to install or update some piece of software, and I don't like having to elevate myself to admin status to have to do that.
What I would really like is the ability to have it elevate for a period of time, or say automatically turn itself back on when I log off, so that I could do an entire session's worth of installing stuff without being bothered, and then be secure again when I was done and inevitably had to restart the machine as seems to be common practice with windows installers now.
And all that ranting aside, I think for your test machine, it should definitely be on. Not because I necessarily agree with the feature any more than I agree that the Administrator account should be disabled permananty, I love that account way too much but because the User is very likely to have it turned on, and you need to see your program through their eyes. This is especially true if your program is going to require elevation, say to change a setting or modify a certain directory, so that you can prompt your users to accept the UAC warning in your program, which adds an extra layer of comfort to the user I think.
Oh, and as for the one program, let me harp on you just slightly. Shouldn't the program have a define somewhere in the main header files that tells it where its "working directory" is? If this is already the case, then why is it so hard to change that working directory to somewhere else? If its not the case, shame on you, and you should go fix that. I'm running into issues where our build scripts do things like manipulate registry entries or add things to the GAC.
We're trying to get away from this stuff but until we do it's there and requires privilege escalation. So the build scripts get run from an Administrator command window. The problem comes in when I open Visual Studio and try to build part of the application - I can't as a normal user because the output files can't be overwritten because the build in the Admin console produced the same files at a higher privilege level.
It's causing me a lot of frustration and I'm thinking the best way is to turn UAC off for now but I'm very reluctant to do so. Because I've got post-build scripts to copy executables into the Program Files directory for testing I run Visual Studio with elevated privileges. One tip I've found that makes life easier, is that to quickly start a command prompt with elevated privileges you can:.
The only downside I've found is that elevated windows don't interact with some of my window tweaking software like KatMouse and Switcher. I do not put myself in the administrators group. Juts a plain old user, with no elevation prompts. I code with UAC off. I found annoying to see all those popups when i open visual studio or star uml, or just want to change a setting in my machine.
I have always installed a good internet security suite that keeped me "virus free" on my machine for long years and i don't see the point to have always an "are you sure" prompt on every task i do. I agree with Ed because everyone click ok. Exemple : install a firewall to some member of your family. When they will be prompted if app XYZ can connect to the internet, they will click yes.
It's the same thing with UAC. The only real reason why I do that though is that I mostly work on software that requires admin permissions to run anyway. And yes, I know that should be the minority, but my app happens to be one of those -- it's a soft-realtime hardware controller. For general purpose apps, you must at least test with UAC enabled; while you could do that on a separate machine, it's easier to test on your dev machine.
And the prompt isn't that much of an imposition, especially if you disable the "secure desktop" option which reacts very slowly with most graphics cards when enabled. If you stay on Vista, turn off UAC and rely on Microsoft Security Essentials' real-time monitor to intercept anything that wants to alter your system.
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Asked 13 years, 3 months ago. Active 9 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 2k times. I didn't upgrade to Vista until May or so and one of the things I've always heard developers I know in real life say is "first thing you should do is turn off that UAC crap" Well, I've left it on this whole time for a few reasons.
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If you are interested in troubleshooting, and creating network maps, then I recommend that you try NPM now. As you can see in the above screenshot, there are more server policies for the UAC. However, they are less important and control specialist situations, for example, installing applications. User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation. For home users, the default is Enabled, meaning home users get a UAC dialog box.
However, for domain users this UAC is disabled so that installation can proceed silently. The permissions are set on these directories to ensure that the executable is not user-modifiable which would otherwise allow elevation of privilege. Group Policy settings ultimately work by changing the registry settings.
It follows that you could edit the registry directly rather than configure through the Local Policy GUI. When you are learning and if there is a GUI, that is always the best place to start.
However, there may be occasions when you need to go to the registry, for example to create a. Reg file. One of the underlying computer dilemmas is productivity versus security. On my test network I move the imaginary productivity -v- security slider to ease of use, whereas for customers, I move the same slider over to more secure settings.
What can I say? You should not use this setting? As I often say, my role is to show you the settings and help you to make informed decisions. What I received was this error message:. Fortunately, the solution was easy; as you can see from the screen shot to the right, just right-click the Command Prompt and select Run as administrator from the shortcut menu.
When you have found a good move in chess or bridge, always look for a better one. Applying this principle to the CMD prompt:. When you launch this tool it analyzes a users effective NTFS permissions for a specific file or folder, and takes into account network share access, then displays the results in a nifty desktop dashboard! Firstly, when you logon as an administrator, you can run applications such as Outlook, but in the context of an ordinary user.
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