Microsoft says UAC prompts in Windows 7 will be nearly a third fewer than in Vista
Windows Vista’s UAC fiasco left a lasting impression on many as a good reason to just disable UAC or stay away from Vista altogether. The good news is that software developers have had more than three years to make their apps UAC-friendly by not unnecessarily requiring admin privileges, reducing the overall number of UAC prompts.
User Account Control (UAC) was a security feature introduced in Windows Vista intended to reduce the chance of malware or malicious scripts being executed on the computer. The feature when turned on, would require administrator credentials before performing any action that required elevated permissions.
Director of Windows 7 client enterprise security Paul Cooke, told ComputerWorld today that Windows 7 will have a significantly lower amount of UAC prompts.
From our beta and internal testing, we expect a 29% decrease in UAC prompts compared to Windows Vista
Percentage of Sessions with one or more UAC prompts
Looking back at an article published on October 8, 2008 at the Engineering Windows 7 blog, the number of sessions with one or more UAC prompts had declined to 33% with SP1. This would mean that we can expect almost less than 22% of future sessions to have one or more UAC prompts, compared to 50% of sessions on Vista, six months after its release.
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“Windows Vista’s UAC fiasco”! Exactly having an operating system asking permission before an important action is performed is a complete joke.
Come on! Get off the populist soap box. UAC as it is implemented is Vista SP1 is in no way annoying and people who think otherwise deserve to have their PC infected with all manner of malware.
I use Vista SP1 and use the system as a limited user. I hardly ever get a UAC message and any time I do get a UAC message it is because an important action is being performed (e.g. installing an application, modifying anti-virus application settings, etc).
I am thankful for UAC.
I agree. Spybot Search & Destroy does the same thing Vista does and nobody complains about it..
I tried teatimer on Vista once and it destroyed the machine. I never touched it again
Sorry I was not too clear, by fiasco I was regarding at Vista launch. I had access to Vista RTM and the UAC prompts were ridiculous. It took about 2-3 prompts to delete a file or recycle something (I can’t remember.) In my opinion, SP1 revolutionized Vista, and should have been what was being sold at release. But it was too late for most people to care about what SP1 was, they only remember Vista in the beginning.
UAC is not annoying anymore the way it is mainly due to SP1 and that developers have changed the ways their applications work as indicated in the article.
I have to say though personally that I don’t use UAC. It’s a nice security feature, but I didn’t need it in XP, so why do I need it in Vista? I am going for speed. I may come off as ignorant by many techies here but I just don’t need UAC
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