tewak-uac

[Fred]

Does anyone have any experience with this free Vista tweak?

http://www.tweak-uac.com/

 

[corbomite]

it works great

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Fred

You can accomplish the same thing that this program accomplishes by making
one, very simple, registry change. You do not need a complete program to do
this.

The problem is that this turns off the most important feature of UAC, which
is forcing any program that wants access to the entire system, to ask for
your permission first. With this option turned off, you are at the mercy of
any malicious program that will be able to automatically make system wide
changes to your computer without you even being aware of it.

 

[Somebody]

Fred

You can accomplish the same thing that this program accomplishes by making
one, very simple, registry change. You do not need a complete program to
do this.

The problem is that this turns off the most important feature of UAC,
which is forcing any program that wants access to the entire system, to
ask for your permission first. With this option turned off, you are at the
mercy of any malicious program that will be able to automatically make
system wide changes to your computer without you even being aware of it.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Well that was Microsoft's choice not to allow the user to choose what it
complains about. Frankly having it nag me every time I want to add, move,
rename or change something on the start menu is a pain. Microsoft could have
been a little more intelligent about things like this and allow the user to
choose the level that they wanted for UAC, but no they had to do an all or
nothing like Microsoft typically does and that is highjack ones computer
doing whatever they see fit even when it isn't right. The extra security is
nice but I hardly consider a new program group on the start menu a security
threat.

Somebody!