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Posted by louis in Software at 08:17 | Friday, August 17. 2007

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I've been working with Vista for a little under a year now. There are some things that I like, a lot, and some things I don't like. Maybe others with Vista experience can chime in, maybe some even have some workarounds to temper the annoying parts of the OS. Off the top of my head, these are two things I don't quite like about Vista:

1) Consistency

Alt-Ctrl-Enter will launch a program in administrative mode from within the Start Menu's search field. It will not launch a program in administrative mode when you enter the same command from Windows-R, however. The only workaround I can think of is to hit the Windows key and ignore that Windows-R exists.

2) Interoperability

Say I launch Wordpad in administrative mode to edit a few files. I can't drag and drop files, even from administrative explorer windows! Nor can I right click and edit the file, again from within the administrative explorer window. There are a few workarounds, such as making an administrative Wordpad shortcut, but nothing out of the box. The best I can figure is to turn off UAC, which I happen to like (at least in principle if not in implementation).

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Here is pages of ranting about Vista. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/18/1512243

#1 ken on 2007-08-21 14:22

Just disable UAC and your two gripes are moot! You say you like UAC, why? How does it benefit an end user that knows what they are doing? Do you really need to confirm every action that you make? Sometimes double confirm? Are you sure that you are sure that you want to do that?

Eventually, the typical user will get so used to clicking 'yes, I want to do that', that they will ignore the messages and always click yes... even when the message is coming from something malicious, guised as a genuine message box.

M$ should have left UAC to the Doom series. It was a much better fit there.

#2 Colin on 2007-08-24 09:24

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