I have UAC on my laptop at home but I don't really use that in anger so up until now it hasn't really given me any woes. I'm now working at a client where the environment is Windows 7 and UAC is enabled via a group policy - no way to get rid of it because each time you log on to your machine the pesky feature has been re-enabled.
I can't begin to tell you how much hair I've pulled out over this. The classic one is forgetting to start an application via the "Run as Admin" shortcut. Visual Studio especially gives all kinds of misleading errors and I end up scratching my head for ages just to find out in the end that the problem was beacuase I didn't run it up as admin.
Really, what is the point of this useless feature?
I can't begin to tell you how much hair I've pulled out over this. The classic one is forgetting to start an application via the "Run as Admin" shortcut. Visual Studio especially gives all kinds of misleading errors and I end up scratching my head for ages just to find out in the end that the problem was beacuase I didn't run it up as admin.
Really, what is the point of this useless feature?
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