Why not ....

Knife UAC in the gonads and be rid of it altogether. Its the most irritating function on vista by far .

Vista

I just got Vista on a new laptop the other day. I was hunting for a way to disable UAC within about 3 minutes of booting the monstrosity up. I thought Vista couldn't be as bad as some people were making out, turns out it's worse! I'm going to "upgrade" to XP if I can find the right drivers, although I've heard Server 2008 is actually very good and much faster than Vista despite coming from the same code base. No wonder MS is rushing a replacement.

Its not UAC

Microsoft had the option of nuking ANY program that broke the security model. The problem, is that would have made Vista none compatible with masses of broken software.

Yes, its true, The windows world is full of developers who create software, and screw the security model.

Oh look, a config file in c:\program files - Arn't I a clever dev.

The UAC by design is supposed to annoy users, thus, they bitch to the devs (whoever dreams this stuff up needs shooting..) - but its a stupid stupid sticking plaster over the bigger issue.

We would ALL have been better off if MS had simply done a better job, AND made the OS less backward compatible. They could have kept XP available for the long term for people who were having issues, and Vista could have been the real future with developers and the company looking at the future.

Now its just a messed up release that will never get rid of the bad name it has, and WIN7 can't come quickly enough.