UAC is far too annoying and chatty, most of it’s apologists argue that it’s like Sudo for Linux, even though UAC is not in the same league, and I’ve never been so aggravated by Sudo that I’d wanted rid of it, and Sudo does not pester you for your password for every operation.

Example, in Windows I want to delete 4 files, 1 in each subdirectory, I get 4 UAC prompts.

In Linux, that hardly happens, because your system files are quite well seperated from user files and apt-get purge will delete the program’s whole folder, and clean up the config files, so there are actually fewer per-incident reasons to invoke Sudo than UAC, as UAC must operate under the Windows environment, where Microsoft has thrown anything remotely like security to the wind, until 2004, whereas security has been part of the UNIX design, since the 1970’s.

But about UAC being less annoying in SP1 vs RTM, it’s about the same really, the first thing I did was disable it, of course I feel I know what the hell I’m doing with the system, and I’m sure a lot of people that use Windows really just don’t, and so for them, leaving it on may be the better choice, but UAC in any event, makes my blood boil.

Heh Ryan,
Thanks for sharing you thoughts with us.