Yes, correct. MS has neglected security in favor of compatibility for
decades and (thankfully!) that era is now over.
You do, in fact, need to take ownership of the files you want before you
can use them freely in Vista. This is not difficult. Just right-click
on the files, and then Properties>Security. Edit the privileges on
those files as needed so you can change the owner to whomever you want.
This is a small price to pay for the increased security you gain.
What security are you gaining? By clicking ok, you in effect REMOVE
the security and Vista responds exactly like XP would and lets you do
anything because you just agreed to elevate whatever process was
running as a standard user to now have full administrative rights. For
all practical purposes all UAC adds is a nag screen and a warning that
you're about to do something riskly, regardless if it is or not. Again
I refer to the movie, LISTEN to what the team that wrote UAC actually
admits in the interview. Only if you stop what you planned to do are
you "protected".
I grow weary of trying to reason with unruly children that are too
foolish to listen and too dumb to understand.
If you watch the movie of the two UAC authors you understand alright.
Well I did. Microsoft in effect is saying, look, we know all prior
versions of Windows have been a horrible security risk. So here's the
deal, we'll put up a barrier, its just a nag screen that halts
execution until you decide what to do, but hey, it warns you. If you
click to proceed you do so at your own risk. We started to "fix" the
thousands and thousands of legacy applications that break under UAC,
but geez, we had no idea what a job that would be. So we stopped. Oh
we fixed, I think oh about a thousand. These are hard wired within
Vista to sneak past UAC, just so you don't see any nag screens. The
rest? Oh, you'll have to deal with those on your own. If enough people
squeal, maybe will patch those someday. Have fun, your Vista team.
As far as editing privileges file by file, you nuts man? Maybe for
those with a handful of files, not that big a deal. You want to come
over and fix my million plus files? No? I didn't think so. Now I'm not
saying by any stretch my million plus files need a permission change.
The point is I have no idea which ones need changing until I try to
access them. Some I won't need for months, maybe a year or more down
the road. Worse, as I've said over and over and now confimed by
Microsoft there are issues and sometimes you can't change permissions
on some files. Oh... what do I do with those?
