Its one reason I liked linux security tom.
There shouldn't be any reason you need to change anything, most stuff
in linux doesn't even need security unless its system spaciffic.
Windows on the other hand wants uac for everything thats not sertified.
I have a couple systems, one with uac and one without.
The one without ran much faster so there definately is a performance
lag of some note.
I guess one system was a dulecore the other a quad so maybe that was
the problem.
But the point is, without uac the stuff ran faster.
However one major advantage of uac is you can lock programs to a user account.
So all my games, and everything could be locked to my user account.
Everyone else that got the system on would just see office and some
other generic stuff I allowed access to normal users.
Ofcause I have no idea what I'd do, even with search which I can kill
if I care to.
I have 2 systems, both are not mine and I don't care what they are
set at as every app is for the whole box anyway.
At 04:34 a.m. 10/03/2012 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Dark,
Well, I can answer that one. Microsoft's User Account Control, UAC, is
a security system which is there to prevent users and applications
from modifying secured files, folder, and programs without an admin
level user name and password. This is similar to the program sudo
found on Linux that performs essentually the same functionality. As a
result the idea here is to prevent hackers, trojans, viruses, and
worms from accessing restricted areas of the operating system.
Generally it is a good idea to use UAC for that additional layer of
security, but unfortunately not everything written for Windows is UAC
compliant.
For example, if you download one of Jim Kitchens games, say Football,
it will save all the season standings, settings, etc to data files in
the Kitchensinc folder. Well, because Microsoft was extremely lax on
security issues on 9t5, 98, Millennium, XP, etc it was perfectly ok to
do that. So we can't blame developers like Jim for saving data to the
installation directory because it was the easiest thing to do.
However, with Vista and now Windows 7 Microsoft decided to get
security conscious and have created User Account Control similar to
sudo on Linux to prevent programs from accessing various secured areas
on the hard drive including Program Files and Program Files (x86)
which unfortunately is where many games save their data to. With UAC
enabled Windows 7 assumes the game is attempting to illegally access
said directories and sometimes said program crashes because its being
blocked by UAC. One of the best ways to fix said problems is to turn
off UAC, but in doing so you end up removing that extra layer of
security in the process. What I do instead is right click on the
program's icon select admin, and press enter. This launches the app as
administrator and I can leave UAC on so that I get both the security
as well as play older games that haven't been updated with UAC
compatibility.
I think most people tell end users to turn UAC off simply because they
don't know how to get around it. There are several ways to set up an
app and make it coexist with UAC without disabling UAC. One way is to
install the app locally in
c:\users\username\programs
which means it will run locally for that individual user. Another way
is to click on the icon and select run as admin from the pull down
menu. Finally, on Windows 7 Ultimate there is a way to customize UAC
so it will not block certain programs. So there isn't any need to
disable UAC if you know how to run older programs on Windows 7
correctly.
Cheers!
On 3/9/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kurt.
>
> In the kitchinsinc directory, all the monopoly board files are just called
> monopolyboardname, as one word, for instance monopolyboardaircraft or
> monopolyboardbeatles, so you can just delete them as normal.
>
> to be honest though, from everything I've heard, why have you got uac on
> anyway? Almost every single program I've found advises you to turn it off
> if you want stuff to run properly on windows 7.
>
> Beware the Grue!
>
> Dark.
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