Does UAC learn?

When Vista first came out, I heard that within a week or two, UAC effectively stops bothering you and then becomes useful, as it only alerts when something out of the ordinary happens.
But these days all I hear is of people disabling it off the bat, so was what I initially heard wrong?

 

I've been using vista since June and UAC still "bugs" me

 

I don't think so or I am not sure if it 'learns'.. have been using this for the past 4 or 5 months and UAC is still the way it was at the beginning!!!!

 

:laugh:You guys need to disable it
It's like having your computer riddled with pop-up adds!

 

No it doesn't learn, I wish it did. It just comes up less since SP1 was installed.

 

Superfetch learns, UAC does not. Thankfully I don't have to deal with either one since i'm back on XP.

 

Yeah, thinking harder, I think this is true.. haven't calculated the frequency exactly as to when was it more, but these days I find myself starting up some prog' without the UAC coming up, than when I get my system... just that I didn't notice it or feel bothered really... there are worse things to bother us in life.. But irrespective of whether UAC learnt or not, I did learn a lot about many programs.. lol.. lol..

 

It's not that it learns, but after you get your system configured with drivers applications etc. the reasons for it to pop up a message occur much less. Uninstalling it is a REALLY bad idea. If it bugs you so much, putting it into silent mode is a better idea, but even that is not really such a good idea either. With it uninstalled you loose a lot of protection, not the least of which are the protections afforded when running Internet Explorer. (Oh, here come all the FireFox and Opera fanboys, I can hear the stampede.)

Gary

 

Yep, very true I agree with every word of that. I still remember Gary' suggestions & advise along with Les and couple of others, to me when I got my system and I was doing the tip' n tweaks long back... and since then I have every bit of protection on, in my system, and now more than anything, I am just used to it and I feel so comfortable and confident that my system is safe, as long as I don't sit in front of it after a half dozen bottles of Vodka!!!

IMHO, I recommend people to have this enabled and not turn it off completely saying this based on experience

 

It doesn't learn. Just get the Administrator Account and you will never have to "Run as Administrator" again

 

The UAC may not be learning by itself, but it still can be taught — same as typical firerwall and antivirus applications with advanced settings. One thing you can do is to configure your trusted applications to always run elevated; this is how:

1. Right-click an application that is not likely to have been assigned an administrative token, such as a word processing application.

2. Click Properties, and then select the Compatibility tab.

3. Under Privilege Level, select Run this program as an administrator, and then click OK.

Note
If the Run this program as an administrator option is unavailable, it means that the application is blocked from always running elevated, the application does not require administrative credentials to run, the application is part of the current version of Windows Vista, or you are not logged into the computer as an administrator.

All available options here: User Account Control Step-by-Step Guide

 

UAC does not learn. I have it automatically elevate and I use Comodo's Defense+, which does learn by labeling programs as trusted programs

 

Well, I've been using Defense+ on XP systems and there have been a few instances when I simply outright disabled the thing with foam in my mouth. :tongue: Anyhow, CFP with Defense+ is great indeed, I have to agree it does a nice job protecting a system. I've noticed, though, that non-advanced users get to become UAC-level irritated with it, too — or they just consent to all its messages (which is as bad).

 

UAC doesn't learn... but it doesn't need to.

You don't see any UAC prompts when opening your web browser, media player, or word processor, right? That's because UAC isn't needed for everyday tasks... just for installing programs or changing system settings, or accessing hardware at a low level. The effect of this is that UAC prompts come up a lot when you first get your computer, and you're installing a lot of programs and changing system configuration a lot. Then you stop doing that stuff all the time and get to actually just using your programs, so it has no reason to prompt you on a regular basis.

 

I think I'll leave it on, for a while anyway