26 January 2009

Windows 7's UAC whitelist is anti-competitive

I'd like to get on my soap box and alert you to what I think is a very bad thing in Windows 7:

Posted by Leo at Monday, January 26, 2009

2 comments:

SibKhatru said...

I understand your frustration, but I would have liked Windows 7 not to have a whitelist at all, not even for their own applications.
Applications that are well designed and developed (like Directory Opus) do not raise UAC warnings, or if they need to do (f.i. when moving or copying files to a system folder), it is a warning that I as a user want to see.

So I would rather say to MS: make your own applications behave better, instead of putting them on a whitelist.

SibKhatru

27 January 2009 08:23
David said...

Hi,

I found a better tool called:
UAC Trust Shortcut 1.0, its freeware.
With the tool you can tell UAC which
programs you do NOT want a prompt.
It’s basically a UAC whitelist.

I suggest you download it and I
recommend it, it’s awesome.

Have a great day guys.

Cheers,
David

24 June 2010 11:20

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