On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:36:30 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>>> Well, it asks once per process you invoke with admin rights, just
> 
>>> Nope.  Every damn time you open the same program...
> 
> That would be "once per process", where "process" is used in the
> technical sense there.
> 
>> Well, that's what I meant.  I had situations where it asked me two and
>> three times about specific things the program wanted to do (like VNC).
> 
> I'll be installing VNC, so I'll see. Of course, if you know it's going
> to do this, you can start it with rights in the first place, but that
> doesn't help the first times you run it. I'm still working on getting
> everything set up the way I want it, so I haven't gotten very far in the
> process of being annoyed by Vista yet ;-)

I probably mentioned it before, but my annoyance at Vista was pretty 
extreme - was pulling video off my DVR via firewire, and silly me, I 
thought I could run it headless.  Disabled the firewall, UAC, installed 
TightVNC and set it up to autostart, set up autologin, background to 
solid black...everything was perfect.

Rebooted the system and it started as expected.

Shut down, took the system to the room with the TV and plugged it in.  
Powered it up.

Couldn't connect to it remotely via VNC.

Eventually went and got a keyboard and monitor and plugged in - Vista had 
reverted *every* *damned* *change* *I* *made*.  I'm surprised it didn't 
uninstall TightVNC.  But sure enough, UAC enabled, autologin turned off, 
background restored, firewall reenabled - all of it.

That's the last time I ran it.  Well, no, tell a lie, I installed the 64-
bit version in a VM so I could extract the wireless drivers for the 
wireless NIC in the machine using ndiswrapper - HP very *helpfully* 
requires that you use the actual OS the drivers are written for in order 
to extract them.  I wasn't real happy about that either.

Jim

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