January 9, 2008
Note 75 of 113 of Delphi 2007 Handbook
Note 75: It has been argued that if you keep asking permissions to users over and over, they'll end up not checking the specific request with care, pressing OK without even reading where the requests originates. Still, critics say, this is a great solution for the legal department, as Microsoft can claim once more that their operating system is safe and all faults is of uncaring users.
This blog post is part of my "113 Delphi 2007 Handbook Notes" blogging project, to promote my new Delphi book.
The number of UAC confirmations is supposed to have been reduced in Vista SP1, but it still baffles me that I cannot tell Vista that - Yes - I really trust this program, so please stop asking me every time! The OS is (or appear to be) unable to differentiate between operations which are initiated by mouse and keyboard and operations which are invoked from other applications. It should be possible to add an "audit trail" to a message so that the API can validate it's origin and stop manually harassing the user by asking "did u really click that" every time.
As a user of Ubuntu and Vista, I adapt to UAC in a few seconds. It is safer then XP or older Windows. But it is really boring to elevate an application all the times. So you should dig this post to disable UAC on that application. http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2007/12/31/how-to-disable-the-uac-for-a-specific-application.aspx
Great link, but it doesn't solve the problem for applications that I have asked to run as admin (ie elevated).
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