xpgeek
25-01-2007, 01:03 PM
Next up, and this deserves its own post so people read it;
User Account Control
There has been so many storys and articles about this during the Vista beta process. Of how annoying its going to be and everyone will turn it off anyway.
First let me say, don't. Turn it off that is, you shouldn't. Sure it can be a little annoying sometimes, I myself turn it off completely for a little while after installing Vista so I can easily install a bunch of my favorite programs without being prompted all the time, but, when I'm done, I turn it right back on, and you should too.
Just browsing the net in a browser or talking to people on instant messenger, or a good 80% of the everyday things you do on your computer, isn't going to prompt it anyway. The only time its really going to prompt you is when it should, when something wants to install, or change a system wide setting, or access an advanced section of the system, and having this extra layer of security enabled is going to make it much much harder for almost all common virus's and spyware to install onto your system.
"But people will just start clicking yes to everything without looking at them anyway." I hear a lot. Well people shouldn't. The default choice should be no. If you get a user account control prompt, take a second and read it, do you recognize the name of the program trying to install, or the area of Vista you are trying to access? If you don't, then you should NOT just be clicking yes just to make it go away. It is perfectly safe to choose no and not allow the action. It is NOT perfectly safe to click yes all the time without even looking at them.
If people do start just clicking yes all the time just to make them go away, and then those people become infected with virus's and spyware because of this, well sorry to say it, but then it is the user's own fault. Its not that hard to just take a second and look at it, and think about whether you should be clicking yes or not.
So, now that I've have explained why you should not be turning it off, I am going to show how to easily turn it off. Only because some people will just not want it on, that is their preference, or they wish to turn it off temporarily to do something and then turn it back on when they are done.
User Account Control can be easily disabled entirely by going into the User Accounts panel. This can be accessed through the Control Panel, or, the quickest and easiest way, is click the Start button, or the icon where the Start button was rather, you know what I'm talking about, then, see the little picture at the top right of it that is your user account picture? Click it. Tadaa, opens User Accounts.
Then all you have to do is find 'Turn User Account Control on or off' right there, click it, will get a User Account Control prompt now to make sure its actually you wanting to do this and not a malicious program, uncheck the box, and click Ok. You will have to reboot the system for the change to take affect.
That easy. But remember, you shouldn't. Turn it off for what you need it turned off for, and then turn it back on.
User Account Control
There has been so many storys and articles about this during the Vista beta process. Of how annoying its going to be and everyone will turn it off anyway.
First let me say, don't. Turn it off that is, you shouldn't. Sure it can be a little annoying sometimes, I myself turn it off completely for a little while after installing Vista so I can easily install a bunch of my favorite programs without being prompted all the time, but, when I'm done, I turn it right back on, and you should too.
Just browsing the net in a browser or talking to people on instant messenger, or a good 80% of the everyday things you do on your computer, isn't going to prompt it anyway. The only time its really going to prompt you is when it should, when something wants to install, or change a system wide setting, or access an advanced section of the system, and having this extra layer of security enabled is going to make it much much harder for almost all common virus's and spyware to install onto your system.
"But people will just start clicking yes to everything without looking at them anyway." I hear a lot. Well people shouldn't. The default choice should be no. If you get a user account control prompt, take a second and read it, do you recognize the name of the program trying to install, or the area of Vista you are trying to access? If you don't, then you should NOT just be clicking yes just to make it go away. It is perfectly safe to choose no and not allow the action. It is NOT perfectly safe to click yes all the time without even looking at them.
If people do start just clicking yes all the time just to make them go away, and then those people become infected with virus's and spyware because of this, well sorry to say it, but then it is the user's own fault. Its not that hard to just take a second and look at it, and think about whether you should be clicking yes or not.
So, now that I've have explained why you should not be turning it off, I am going to show how to easily turn it off. Only because some people will just not want it on, that is their preference, or they wish to turn it off temporarily to do something and then turn it back on when they are done.
User Account Control can be easily disabled entirely by going into the User Accounts panel. This can be accessed through the Control Panel, or, the quickest and easiest way, is click the Start button, or the icon where the Start button was rather, you know what I'm talking about, then, see the little picture at the top right of it that is your user account picture? Click it. Tadaa, opens User Accounts.
Then all you have to do is find 'Turn User Account Control on or off' right there, click it, will get a User Account Control prompt now to make sure its actually you wanting to do this and not a malicious program, uncheck the box, and click Ok. You will have to reboot the system for the change to take affect.
That easy. But remember, you shouldn't. Turn it off for what you need it turned off for, and then turn it back on.