UAC meant to annoy

[screwballl]

Microsoft admitted that the whole purpose of UAC was to "annoy the user" and warn them of possible impending changes that can happen in certain areas of Windows.

DailyTech - Microsoft Designed Vista's UAC to "Annoy Users"

David Cross, a product manager responsible for designing UAC, gave the real reason for UAC at the RSA 2008 conference in San Francisco yesterday. "The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," remarked Cross.
Cross added that Microsoft's unorthodox method to stop users from wreaking havoc with their systems and to stop software makers from making applications that delved too far into the Windows subsystem was a necessary move.

Many would say that many users have zero UAC prompts on a daily basis because they have already disabled UAC -- not so says Microsoft. According to Cross, 88% of Vista users have UAC enabled and 66% of Windows sessions do not encounter UAC prompts.

First thing I do on ANY Vista install: DISABLE UAC
Second thing I do after any Vista install: go back to XP or Linux to find out why something isn't working.

[polobunny]

Haha, UAC is also the first thing I disabled. :P

[theburan]

Honestly, the thing that bugs me with uac is that I have to allow rivatuner to start up when I have my video card oc'd. That's a little annoying... but I put up with it.

[Zambini]

lol. I have the "Someone is attempting to read your shirt. Cancel or Allow" T-shirt.

:)