SubscribeMicrosoft: Turn off Vista’s UAC to fix problems
Posted by stuart on November 13th 2006
I’ve been fairly critical of the new User Access Control (UAC) in Windows Vista, as I feel it is too secure to be usable, which will probably result in many users and corporations turning off and losing out on what could have been Vista’s best feature.
As Vista becomes released to the public I get the feeling we are going to be seeing lots of problems arising from UAC. Here is one that I caught via TechNet Blogs - Microsoft employee, John Howard, found that he needed to turn off UAC to get Microsoft’s own Money 2005 working under Vista. He writes…
The workaround, it turns out, is relatively simple. However the symptoms above give no indication of the problem directly. What you need to do is turn off UAC (User Account Control).
He recommends turning UAC back on after fixing the problem, but when users need to do this more than a couple of times to get a usable system, they will just leave it turned off.
Link to John Howard : Running Microsoft Money 2005 UK under Windows Vista
Posted by stuart
Filed under Windows Vista
Tagged with bugs, microsoft, problems, security, technet, uac, usability, vista, windows, Windows Vista
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