ecchi
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
Location: LA & SF
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 Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:07 am |
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| TheUser wrote: |
| The admin thing I was talking about is just that my account is an administrator, but when I right click .exes, I get a "Run as Administrator" option. It just made me wonder if I only have admin privileges when I use that option of something now. |
The reason this confuses/bothers people is because they look at it as "my computer is preventing me from doing admin stuff". That's not what it's doing. It's asking you for permission to do admin stuff. Which is exactly what it should do. You are always an admin, but the programs you run don't get administrator privileges unless you specifically give it to them.
If you run Firefox as an administrator, or with UAC disabled, you could be a victim of something like this and suddenly your entire computer is compromised. With UAC, you can deny it from doing anything evil outside of your own user account. IE7 in Vista does something special with an even more-restrictive sandbox, but I don't know the details -- I think it prevents access even to your own personal files.
Windows 7 will reduce the number of UAC triggers caused by the OS itself -- but even still, I very rarely hit any UAC prompts aside from when I install new programs.
| falsedan wrote: |
the only decent 64-bit OS for users is OS X in my experience; ugh, Win XP 64-bit, how did you get anything done?
you're using 4GB so Vista x86 can handle all that; is there any particular need for you to use a 64-bit environment? |
Vista x64 is actually a first-class citizen (compared to XP64 which was largely ignored). In order to be Windows certified, hardware must come with 64-bit drivers nowadays. It works perfectly well, even as a gaming system, as long as your hardware is remotely modern. 32-bit Windows can't use 4 gigs of ram because the address space is shared with all hardware -- half a gig is used up by the video card alone!
| manmachine plays jazz wrote: |
| so, wait. it is just about as speedy as XP, but it requires much more resources to be that speedy? that sounds like overhead to me! |
Objectively, it's often faster than XP on modern hardware (and is faster and more reliable in terms of sleep/hibernation). But more importantly, it's more productive in many ways. Vista simply does more than XP. Searching is much, much better. Diagnosing and fixing network problems is faster and easier. Installing new hardware is better. Window thumbnails are great. When it all works, Vista is the best version of Windows to date, and I would never go back to XP.
THAT SAID,
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| I disabled all the security and user account control bullshit that I could find, but vista still hounds me for normal functionality questions. How do I make this shut up? |
What, specifically, are you talking about? |
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