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There was never anything wrong with the idea of UAC; the problem was the implementation. When the feature was first introduced so many Windows programs did thin
by adestefan 12y ago
There was never anything wrong with the idea of UAC; the problem was the implementation. When the feature was first introduced so many Windows programs did things that caused UAC pop-ups that it because nothing more than an annoying click-through that no one paid attention to. It became nothing more than a default "okay."
- vacri 12y agoThe problem wasn't the elevation request itself, it was the amount of requests for a single [user-perceived] action. My record was 5, but a friend managed to get 7 requests in early Win Vista... I wish I could remember what for.