I suppose, many working with Vista now are considering disabling User Account Control in Vista. There is at least one good reason to do so, but there also some reasons to give UAC a chance.
By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Fri, December 29, 2006 - 8 comments Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.
Yesterday, I described how to start an application at an elevated level, i.e. with Administrator privileges under Vista. Unfortunately, this won’t prevent UAC (User Account Control) prompts from getting on your nerves. Every time a user or an Administrator runs an application requiring Administrator rights, UAC will prompt you for confirmation to proceed. Microsoft calls [...]
By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Thu, December 28, 2006 - 19 comments Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.
Some days ago, I promised to write about the different ways of elevating an application, i.e. to run it with Administrator privileges in Windows Vista. If you use Vista already, you have probably noticed these UAC (User Account Control) prompts. Every time you start an application requiring Administrator rights, UAC will bug you with this [...]
By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Wed, December 27, 2006 - 25 comments Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.
By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Tue, December 26, 2006 - 0 comments Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.
I’ve tried quite a few desktop managers, and VirtuaWin is my favorite one, so far. The Open Source tool comes with many interesting features.
By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Mon, December 25, 2006 - 2 comments Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.