[Cialug] Microsoft's attempts to overcome Vista preconceptions

[Todd Walton]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> Good idea, bad implementation. I've used vista for about 10 hours
> total so maybe this is easier once you become an expert... but my
> first encounter with this was needing to isntall a program I'd
> downloaded. I clicked the icon and nothing happened. I clicked it
> again and nothing happened. I did some inspection and right clicked it
> to be sure it was an exe or msi file, it was. Finally after I deleted
> and redownloaded it I happened to notice an option in the right click
> menu to run it with administrative privs (or however its worded).
> Voila! it worked.

Hmm.  I've never used Vista, but I figured it would warn you, "Hey,
you're trying to do something that requires admin".  No?

Ideally, in my opinion, it would install whether you were admin or
not, and if you weren't it would be confined to your space.

-todd