Horrible why? Patronising? Maybe a little, I can just think of the times when UAC would be good, just because it's implemented a bit (read a lot) heavy-handedly doesn't mean it won't be useful. The best example I can think of is asking you if you want to run embedded content on websites or allow ActiveX holes to be exploited to run executables. Vista will stop me from having to make the mad dash to close my browser, then run a scan.
If you don't use it regularly, and are quite happy to spend time picking small holes in the OS then fine, go ahead, but quite frankly I'm more than happy with it, and used to its little quirks.
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Horrible why? Patronising? Maybe a little, I can just think of the times when UAC would be good, just because it's implemented a bit (read a lot) heavy-handedly doesn't mean it won't be useful. The best example I can think of is asking you if you want to run embedded content on websites or allow ActiveX holes to be exploited to run executables. Vista will stop me from having to make the mad dash to close my browser, then run a scan.
If you don't use it regularly, and are quite happy to spend time picking small holes in the OS then fine, go ahead, but quite frankly I'm more than happy with it, and used to its little quirks.