Andre

Right, I see your point. But I meant what if a program could access a file
with administrator permission even if my user does not have administrator
permissions, you see? I did some brief tests and I guess not.

wadpro and NoStop, I believe this bug does exist then. I sincerely hope
Microsoft see to it.

Jonathon, I believe that's because Microsoft created a new user called
"TrustedInstaller" that has permissions on some system folders that not even
the Administrator has. However, I though it was strange that I could not
access my own "Application Data" folder because the permission for All Users
was denied. I use this folder to restore my Firefox bookmarks and some
program configurations. I believe Vista is setting some folders too
restrictive permissions. Maybe it is a bug, or maybe someone at Microsoft
misconfigured the default settings.

So now I'm eagerly waiting for SP1.

Andre

"Wrecklass" wrote:

> Actually, Vista WITH UAC enabled is only as secure as XP. The simple fact
> of the matter is that a user can do as much harm to a Vista computer with
> UAC as they can with XP. The difference is that you have might have to
> clicky a button to do the damage with Vista.
>
> Said it before, and won't stop saying it, clicking a button does NOT make a
> system more secure. In fact, in many ways it is far far worse.
>
>
> "Andre" <Andre@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EC29CF66-1C23-4C80-86A0-A9277A866C2C@microsoft.com...
> > So, disabling UAC solved two of the problems I listed before. I still
> > haven't
> > tested camera transfer because I don't have what to transfer right now.
> > But I
> > will test it later. As far as making Windows Explorer change the Views on
> > all
> > folders, well, most of my folders are already in Detailed view, so I can't
> > say anything about it.
> >
> > It seems that program writers need to support UAC better (even Microsoft
> > does, the Visual Studio 2005 itself, for instance, has issues). Let's give
> > them time. In the meantime I'll leave it disabled. I just hope that Vista
> > with UAC disabled is as safe as Windows XP. I never had problems with XP
> > and
> > I don't want to have any problems with Vista.
> >
> > Andre
> \
>
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