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boast

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reason I had to switch my dad from windows. He would press ok for whatever popped up, no matter what it said, just to get it to go away.

After installing linux and not telling him the root pass, all is good.


SLD
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Yep. MS made it too invasive, so you are clicking so often than it becomes a habit to just click any message. I turn off UAC on all Vista installs I work with, and my Dad asked me to take it off of his as well. Funny thing is I originally recommended he upgrade to Vista for the UAC (a long while back)...what a waste.

Kearnstd
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All the firewalls, anti-virus, anti-spyware, and anti-trojan programs in the world can't fix stupid.
So very, very true.
+1

Even the most sophisticated software can be overridden by a dumb user clicking "OK" to an alert.
this is why i at times question the value of the UAC in Vista. i bet most users will just click OK anytime that thing pops up.
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n2jtx

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said by swhitney2003 See Profile :

said by Matt See Profile :

All the firewalls, anti-virus, anti-spyware, and anti-trojan programs in the world can't fix stupid.
So very, very true.
+1

Even the most sophisticated software can be overridden by a dumb user clicking "OK" to an alert.
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