Winamp 5.52 Released (security patch)

[Lawnmower233]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
FYI, I've got a Vista machine, and use the Administrator account on it ONLY.

However, my main pc is a trusty WinXP one :-)

99% of Vista users will be on a standard user account with UAC enabled, where they get prompted to allow/deny every little action, from copy/cut+paste and deleting files (in UAC protected folders, such as Program Files, Windows, etc), to allowing programs to write to the registry, etc etc.

A bit like an annoying troll actually... ;-)

I just switched users to my mom's account. I cut a file and pasted it, rinsed and repeated in several folders in C:\Users\Family\. I created a few files and and cut them and pasted them and copied them and deleted them and permanently deleted them by emptying the recycle bin. No UAC prompts so far. I opened up every program there was a shortcut to on her desktop. No UAC prompts so far.

I even opened up the registry through regedit on her account without a UAC prompt (I must have accidently allowed it through Parental Controls; Ironic I'm using Parental controls on my parents :P).


And here is a Tutorial of how to disable UAC prompts while leaving UAC enabled globally and allowing UAC prompts to still exist on Standard user accounts. It makes the registry modification I described earlier simple by the addition of the option to download a reg file from the tutorial site and just run it, rather than editing the value yourself.

And here are two other links demonstrating the benefits of Vista's UAC over it's security lacking predecessors:


Link 1 Link 2

I hope you will come to realise that overly sensationalist attitude to Vista and UAC has nothing substantial to back it up. Rather your Vista bashing is probably more of an attempt to justify not switching over to a new OS. You're not alone though. Plenty of people resent MS as they hold the keys to the kingdom, so to speak, when it comes to PC OS's. They resent Microsoft forcing them to change OS now even though it's long overdue. People got too used to XP and are creating great opposition to the OS change now, even though changing your OS every 2-3 years was a pretty normal feature of the '90's.

Vista may not revolutionalise much but it is a substantial improvement over XP. As much as 98 was over 95 or XP was over ME.