Windows 7 To Reduce Click Fatigue + Plus Other Stuff
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According to one recent article, Windows 7 will provide a 29% reduction in the amount of clicks one will use for UAC. Interesting. I can reduce that number by 100%. Just turn the darn thing off! Problem solved.
If you are in a hurry to receive the RC build of Windows 7, make sure that the download has not been tampered with.
CRC32: E8A1C394
MD5: 8867C13330F56A93944BCD46DCD73590
SHA-1: 7D1F486CA569EFFFFB719CFB48355BB7BF499712
In addition the CD-Key you received for the Beta of Windows 7 will be valid for the RC release.
The official release will be made on April 30, 2009 to TechNet and MSDN and the public release is scheduled for May 5, 2009.
From the Windows Blog concerning XPM - virtual mode for Windows XP:
We will be soon releasing the beta of Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate.
This will be the feature I am most interested in. It will be interesting to see how well or not so well XPM will function in Windows 7.
Comments welcome.
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Andrew Pryde
April 28th, 2009
at 10:39pm
Totally agree. Sorry to be a belligerent apple fan boy but really why try to polish shit? Even will a little bit of rubbing and some mascara its still shit.
@Prydie
Matt
April 29th, 2009
at 12:50am
Ron,
The problem with turning it off completely is that it then removes a *benefit* of UAC - the ability to run most programs with limited user rights, and only elevate when actually needed. TBH since I’ve had W7 installed (I’m still running the beta build 7000) I’ve not noticed UAC being invasive at all - it appears once when opening an installer, and that’s about it. If I’m going to be copying many files in protected areas I have xplorer2 installed and set to run as admin - so again I get 1 prompt and can do all I need to in admin mode.
Try it.. You never know, you might like it..!
Cheers,
Matt.
Ron Schenone
April 29th, 2009
at 4:30am
Hello Matt,
I agree. It is less annoying in W7. Thanks for sharing your input with us. It is appreciated.
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