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If you count yourself among the throngs of Windows Vista users who have been perpetually perturbed by Vista's constant prompt windows (known as User Account Controls, or UAC), you may soon be breathing easy. According to IT World, Microsoft developers are claiming that Windows 7 will feature 29-percent fewer UAC prompts than its oft-hated-on predecessor."We've reduced 16 different points of prompting," Paul Cook, director of Windows 7 client enterprise security, told IT World. According to Cook, users will not be bothered with UACs while updating their systems, viewing their firewall settings, or using Windows applications.
This should strike most Windows users as good, if not unsurprising, news. After all, way back in January, we gathered that Microsoft had finally heard the anguished cries of its denizens. [From: IT World]
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Subscribe to commentsSanskritApr 21st 2009 11:47AM
Glad to see someone was paying attention! When Vista pokes you for permission to play MP3s, there's something seriously wrong.
Platinum_SkeetApr 21st 2009 5:16PM
Are these the same prompts that ask "Do you want to perform this action" and you allow/deny? Because if that's the case XP had about 75 percent less of those.
William AdamsApr 25th 2009 2:44PM
User Account Controls of Windows Vista can be turned off. Begin at the control panel, go to "User accounts and family safety," go to "add or remove user accounts," at the bottom click on "Go to main user accounts page," you then go to a page which has as the option at the bottom of the page "turn user account control on or off." Click on that. Turn user account control off. The security center prompts you to not do this. I did anyway. I like using Vista a lot better after that.