In message <3778E213-C8AF-4ADE-B4AF-49691F4B4E42@xxxxxx> zoomer96
<zoomer96@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>This is the first time I've posted anything here, but I've become
>increasingly frustrated with the UAC myself. Is there some way to have the
>rest of the great upgrades from XP that Windows Vista offersd without the too
>tight security of the UAC. Everytime I turn around it seems that I'm being
>denied access to something. I am a 52 year old married male and the kiuds
>are both in college. I never had any of the security hassles with XP. Is
>micro soft going to do something about the problems with Vista and start
>trying to make it as reliable and friendly as XP? Larry I hope you gety an
>answer to your problems instyead of more frustration!
There are some fairly critical design flaws in Windows, going back to
the DOS based versions of Windows. They're trivially simple to solve,
except that many older apps don't work, and people scream when backward
compatibility is lost.
The MacOS world went for a more or less ground up rewrite, losing a
substantial amount of backward compatibility in the process, resulting
in a relatively secure, stable OS. Microsoft can easily do the same,
just ditch your old apps, and use Microsoft approved hardware.
UAC is a middle ground hack, it lets you continue to run older apps
without requiring full administrative access the full time.
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