Vista + ME

Joan Archer wrote:
> I have no problems with it in Vista <g>

You mean you've got it turned off, Joan?

If not, then you can't do much tinkering. Whereas that is almost all I do
do. I poked some people with a stick over that in the Vista group (when I
briefly visited, until realizing it was like xpgeneral only more so) in
support of the guy there getting all the flak for not being a sheep. And it
is a long time since I mentioned those, eh Joan! Though now I feel guilty
for besmirching the name of the fair bovine whatsit!

The point being that like any mechanic, tinkering is what I do, which makes
it a legitimate use of the computer, just as of the car or bike (or boat or
aircraft). Yet the majority do not do this - they pay or cajole others to
maintain and fix their pieces of technology for them. And when that
technology is altered in a way that doesn't really affect them - i.e.
because they never look under the hood - they think it is fine and don't
care a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. Or rather for the ones who
want to know how things work and not be nannied, and be self-reliant rather
than afraid.

I'm not implying you do this - I know you know a lot about Windows, far more
than the average Josephine. But I think it is really very bad when people
just accept whatever they're handed from on high and dismiss the objections
of those who actually think about it as the irrelevent bleatings (there we
go again!) of a minority who are anti-social enough not to do exactly the
same as everybody else.

From a lifetime of thinking about the problems we face I have no doubt that
they are caused by the lazy, unthinking majority who just allow what is good
to be bulldozed in the name of progress or profit and the promise of an easy
life. UAC is just a signpost - or possibly a milestone - on the inexorable
path to the belated 1984. One could almost imagine the world of The Matrix
coming to pass, except that it won't be the machines that do it, it's be the
likes of Tony Blair, his incumbent lover in the White House and their
supporters.




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> "MowGreen [MVP]" <mowgreen.DeleteThis@nowandzen.com> wrote in message
> news:uTT2f6ORJHA.444@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>
>> UAC will no longer be a PITA in Windows 7. <w>
>>
>>
>> MowGreen [MVP 2003-2009]
>> ===============
>> *-343-* FDNY
>> Never Forgotten
>> ===============

Will this give you some consolation, Shane:

http://www.ookii.org/showpost.aspx?post=3 ?

Harry.


"Shane" <shanebeatson RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Joan Archer wrote:
> > I have no problems with it in Vista <g>
>
> You mean you've got it turned off, Joan?
>
> If not, then you can't do much tinkering. Whereas that is almost all I do
> do. I poked some people with a stick over that in the Vista group (when I
> briefly visited, until realizing it was like xpgeneral only more so) in
> support of the guy there getting all the flak for not being a sheep. And
it
> is a long time since I mentioned those, eh Joan! Though now I feel guilty
> for besmirching the name of the fair bovine whatsit!
>
> The point being that like any mechanic, tinkering is what I do, which
makes
> it a legitimate use of the computer, just as of the car or bike (or boat
or
> aircraft). Yet the majority do not do this - they pay or cajole others to
> maintain and fix their pieces of technology for them. And when that
> technology is altered in a way that doesn't really affect them - i.e.
> because they never look under the hood - they think it is fine and don't
> care a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. Or rather for the ones who
> want to know how things work and not be nannied, and be self-reliant
rather
> than afraid.
>
> I'm not implying you do this - I know you know a lot about Windows, far
more
> than the average Josephine. But I think it is really very bad when people
> just accept whatever they're handed from on high and dismiss the
objections
> of those who actually think about it as the irrelevent bleatings (there we
> go again!) of a minority who are anti-social enough not to do exactly the
> same as everybody else.
>
> From a lifetime of thinking about the problems we face I have no doubt
that
> they are caused by the lazy, unthinking majority who just allow what is
good
> to be bulldozed in the name of progress or profit and the promise of an
easy
> life. UAC is just a signpost - or possibly a milestone - on the inexorable
> path to the belated 1984. One could almost imagine the world of The Matrix
> coming to pass, except that it won't be the machines that do it, it's be
the
> likes of Tony Blair, his incumbent lover in the White House and their
> supporters.
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > "MowGreen [MVP]" <mowgreen RemoveThis @nowandzen.com> wrote in message
> > news:uTT2f6ORJHA.444@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >>
> >> UAC will no longer be a PITA in Windows 7. <w>
> >>
> >>
> >> MowGreen [MVP 2003-2009]
> >> ===============
> >> *-343-* FDNY
> >> Never Forgotten
> >> ===============
>
>