Setting permissions

I have a totally different understanding of UAC than you do and I read this
from a microsoft website. The purpose of UAC is to protect a computer if it
is used at a company that has multiple users on a computer. Each users work
would be protected from other people modifying it, deleting it, etc. Also,
some people surf the web, at work, and could download malware which would
wreck havoc on the computer (if it were not protected by UAC). And UAC
prevents someone from loading their own software onto a company computer
without administrator permission. BUT, I am retired. My wife and I are the
only ones that use this computer. It has a firewall and we do not go to
rogue websites. We have worked with computers for years and are comfortable
around them. Occasionally, I repair computers and write software. And, Larry
E asked a question and I answered it. What he does with that information is
his business. I do thank you all for your inputs. I understand that one
answer doesn't fit all users.
Tom

That is not what UAC is for. The computer does all that anyway. It allows a
way arounds User Account protection in a supposedly more user ftiendly way
and as many people run as Admin also gives them Standard user protection.
"Tom" <Tom@Metroplex.com> wrote in message
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>I have a totally different understanding of UAC than you do and I read this
> from a microsoft website. The purpose of UAC is to protect a computer if
> it
> is used at a company that has multiple users on a computer. Each users
> work
> would be protected from other people modifying it, deleting it, etc. Also,
> some people surf the web, at work, and could download malware which would
> wreck havoc on the computer (if it were not protected by UAC). And UAC
> prevents someone from loading their own software onto a company computer
> without administrator permission. BUT, I am retired. My wife and I are the
> only ones that use this computer. It has a firewall and we do not go to
> rogue websites. We have worked with computers for years and are
> comfortable
> around them. Occasionally, I repair computers and write software. And,
> Larry
> E asked a question and I answered it. What he does with that information
> is
> his business. I do thank you all for your inputs. I understand that one
> answer doesn't fit all users.
> Tom
>
>

> Wow, thank you all for all your input. Ok, I do understand about the UAC
and
> I have no intentions of turning that off. It's just that I ran into a
> situation where I needed to restore a backup file that I had saved in the
> Documents folder and when I tried to access that file in Documents, I was
> greeted with that silly message that I don't have permission to access
> Documents. As Administrator I think that is the silliest message I could
> get.

Larry, I think you are absolutely right. This is a perfect example of what
happens when you have geeks review user interfaces designed by geeks. I
looked at that dialog for over a year before Vista shipped, and even though I
did not like it, it was not egregiously bad. Spending just a few hours in the
newsgroups you discover that the message is void of any real meaning to
normal users.

> I too, like both Tom and Jesper have never experienced an infection but
> still was glad to read about UAC and am not bothered those pop-ups. It's
> just that I have some junk files laying around my hard drive and I want to
> get rid of them and they don't appear in the Add/Remove, so I have to do it
> the other way, but I don't want to get stuck on all the sub-folders. And by
> giving myself permissions on the entire hard drive won't stop UAC from
> popping up, will it?

Actually, it would. The UAC popup happens because the process that is trying
to delete the files does not have access to them. Even though you are an
administrator most of the time your processes do not reflect that. When you
elevate you "become" an administrator, if that makes any sense. By giving
yourself full control over everything on the drive you will remove all the
UAC popups related to file system access for your user account; but at a
terrible cost.

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I already explained it in depth there. :-)
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Confusion about Vista Features: What UAC Really Is
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesp...really-is.aspx

"." wrote:

> That is not what UAC is for. The computer does all that anyway. It allows a
> way arounds User Account protection in a supposedly more user ftiendly way
> and as many people run as Admin also gives them Standard user protection.
> "Tom" <Tom@Metroplex.com> wrote in message
> news:__UKh.3749$Qw.2312@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
> >I have a totally different understanding of UAC than you do and I read this
> > from a microsoft website. The purpose of UAC is to protect a computer if
> > it
> > is used at a company that has multiple users on a computer. Each users
> > work
> > would be protected from other people modifying it, deleting it, etc. Also,
> > some people surf the web, at work, and could download malware which would
> > wreck havoc on the computer (if it were not protected by UAC). And UAC
> > prevents someone from loading their own software onto a company computer
> > without administrator permission. BUT, I am retired. My wife and I are the
> > only ones that use this computer. It has a firewall and we do not go to
> > rogue websites. We have worked with computers for years and are
> > comfortable
> > around them. Occasionally, I repair computers and write software. And,
> > Larry
> > E asked a question and I answered it. What he does with that information
> > is
> > his business. I do thank you all for your inputs. I understand that one
> > answer doesn't fit all users.
> > Tom
> >
> >
>
>