Chambers wrote:
> ...is that it tells me it's going to ask my permission for something 
> before it asks my permission.
> 
> A smart program would figure out that if I say "yes" to the first, I'm 
> probably going to say "yes" to the second as well.

And here's a perfect example: try to create a new folder in "Program Files"
using windows explorer. You will get a UAC prompt to create the folder. Fair
enough. But the folder is called "New Folder" ... and very few people will leave
it named that. Yet renaming it immediately invokes another UAC prompt.

The *smart* thing for Microsoft to do would be to not actually create the folder
until you've specified what name you want for it (and allowing 'New Folder' as
default if you don't care), or at a minimum allow the account that created the
folder the right to rename it also ... yet they don't.

The reason? I don't think it's because they're dumb, I think it's because they
just don't care. After all, it's not their time being wasted.

-- Chris

NB I hear this is fixed in Windows 7, though in what way I don't know.

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