Farewell UAC, I Hardly Knew Yee
The Windows 2008 Server suffered an unexpected shutdown a couple of days ago and I blame UAC (Ok, so UAC and the tax software vendor). As I noted in UAC What is it good for? with UAC enabled I had to set all users as Administrators or hand out an administrator password. Prompting for a password every time a program is opened was not going to work so I set the users as Administrators, trying to keep the UAC security intact. And so, when the remote user chose “Shut Down” instead of “Log Off” the office screens went dark.
So. I changed the user to a regular user account and disabled UAC. Because there isn’t an option to save the administrator account for “this program only”. And despite what Lasse Petterrson says over on technet
UAC is a security feature that should be turned on.
Turning on UAC breaks too much other stuff.
You moved your mouse. <Allow> <Deny>?
