Life of a Sysadmin

The occassional trials and tribulations of a jack of all tr ades sysadmin in a startup in Silicon Valley

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May 2007

User Access Control, or A user annoynance

Today was my first chance using Windows Vista. One of our consultants got a new laptop and needed some assistance with it. After guiding him for awhile, I took the drivers seat and went about installing and configuring some more complex matters.

While installing the VPN client, I encountered four instances of User Account Control asking for permission to continue. I asked the owner of the laptop if he had grown annoyed by the UAC messages yet. He responded "I have yet to see one yet."

In the 15-20 minutes I spent watching and helping him before taking the mouse, I saw him click through at least a half dozen of these messages. It seems Microsoft's goals of alerting the user of possibly conerning changes becomes ineffective after just two days with the OS.