Vista Update - No UAC for you, one year!

Unfortunately, I've had to disable UAC on my Vista install. I was hoping to run with it enabled, at least for a while, so I could grok the issues of developing with and for it. Sadly, it seems somewhat broken on my machine. As I described previously Most of my Control Panel applets, as well as some other apps (like RegEdit) simply failed to run with UAC enabled, displaying a "path not found" error. A few I could work around using Run As Administrator, but in many spots I didn't even have that option.

I'm assuming what was supposed to happen was that an elevation prompt was supposed to be displayed (I don't have a clean install of Vista to compare against, so I can't say for sure). If anyway knows a way to fix this problem, drop me a line. Until then, no soup for me.

3 Comments

  • I'm with you. UAC seems to be brokenon Vista Upgrades. Applications either won't run or hang, presumably waiting for UAC permission.

  • Vista is nothing but a Unix wannabe and it don't get it right. Just revert like everyone else will.!

    PS. I'm a Microsoft guy at heart.

  • Not having any problems with Vista and UAC. All my code is working fine, able to debug, multithreaded apps are fine, socket servers working perfectly. A programs seem to forget some settings - seems to be related to registry write permissions or something...

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