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  Re: The really annoying thing about Vista's UAC...  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 6 Mar 2009 16:48:00
Message: <49b19a10$1@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:23:21 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Chris Cason wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Explorer is dumb here. That's not the UAC's fault.

Microsoft wrote Explorer.  Microsoft wrote UAC.

I leave the rest of my comment as an exercise for the reader. ;-)

Jim


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