Actually, I have no idea. But it's the most stable, reliable application for that particular purpose that I know and it includes all functions my customers demand. I'm in no place to have them rewrite their app or switching to a program with mediocre functions just because of the Windows UAC prompt. But I know my customers don't want to see them, so UAC gets turned off. Had MS thought for a minute and made the requests adressable as "ignore", UAC protection would still be around for the rest of the system. Now, it's off completely. Sometimes well meant isn't well done.
I don't question the feature or efficiency of the soft you are using; just the way it was coded. Most devs don't take account multi-users systems ;they code their soft assuming people uses admin account without UAC; which is wrong.
This is a well know topic since among developers,.
You don't really think I get third parties to switch to all kinds of apps while e-mail has been around for decades and is working just fine? No chance. Since this is only on Outlook problem, Outlook doesn't get used any more.
And why not? i give you a better way than outlook , you ignore it...you prefer whining about Outlook rather than use a far better procedure...
You should look around you, there is a famous site called "github" :
Build software better, together it is the main site for developers exchange/sharing ; emails are made to share docs not programs.
Yep, I'm utterly clueless. I never stated that Windows 10 isn't safer than earlier versions, though. No idea where you got that from.
you say "they dumbing down" , improving is not dumbing , sorry , if you can't handle it.
In the actual world, where the humans live, computers are used to get stuff done. That cashier at Wal-Mart wants to cut through the queue and not answer prompts. The waitress wants to hack in her orders for the cook with as few clicks as possible in order to make it to the next table. You go tell them how unimportant usablility is or try to sell their boss a perfectly secure but awkwardly usable solution. Please tape it for me.
I probably don't have to mention that they don't really torrent and mostly use that one app only all day for years. Yes, constantly repeated UAC prompts for that same program make a world of sense.
no basic programs (whatever it is) should trigger UAC, you still don't get it right. You have UAC alerts because you are on admin account. Try to be on SUA, you will see.
I use many softs every day, i don't have a single UAC alert (unless i request elevation) so why do you have alerts and i don't?
Did you see the Wannacry infection and those hospitals infected, now they all cry because they didn't care to prioritize security ... they were lazy and ignorant , and now they pay the price...
With everything in life comes responsibility. You want to operate a car or operate heavy machinery, you gotta watch out. Even get a licence. When you use a computer, you better know what you're doing as well. If you ignore every lick of common (not even computer-related) sense, you will get infected. And that will have you make use of that hat stand the next time around.
I totally agree with that but we are humans, and we may fail to respond properly someday, it is why we have some features/watchers on Windows for those days...
What MS does is dumb down solutions that needn't be dumbed down. That's curing the symptom instead of the disease.
What you believe was dumbed down? give me some examples.
On a side note, just another fine example came to mind that stems from the same kind of folks that are just too removed from the real world: We had this password policy where every user had to change their password after 30 days for an application we needed once or twice a week. Since everybody already had a thousand PINs and passwords, they just added the number of the month to their password. So secure.
indeed nobody can remember hundreds of passwords, but you have methods and softs to ease that.
Our productivity went down-hill, since we often had to wait for "the guy with the password", IT had more unnecessary jobs and we weren't a lick safer. Great job. This is exactly MS's mindset.
But still better than stopping working for a week because an idiot employee launched a ransomware and locked all files of every users in the network...
More threats are coming, from angles we don't even know, malware coders are very smart; so there is no "too much" security in computing,
using an analogy : i prefer be checked 5 times at the airport rather than letting a terrorist pass...
Linux has 1-2% market share. You're also assuming Linux and Microsoft have the same audience.
You misunderstand me, why Linux is considered as safer than windows?
Because it uses a multi-account architecture, each account separated from the others, and when you install Linux, you are not on admin account by default.
Windows saw the importance of that and then copied it when developing Vista. However so many users are used to admin account so they created UAC to ease the usability. for those using SUA.
I'm waiting the day Windows will totally separate users accounts like Linux does.
lols.. and for make any kind of action ( installing, copy, delete, move...) u had 100 popups abouth yes not cancel give acces.. no thx.. too many things
Because you do what a normal user shouldn't. Now if you want modify system files , you wont mind answering a popup. Normal actions don't triggers UAC, admin ones (aka those with the shield) does it .
If i listen you every noobs should be allow to manipulate every areas of his system and then brick it at will...come on...
you don't give a access to your bank account to your 10 years old kid...same principle.
