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1. Comment - Vista Account Protection Being 'Refined'

   (Jun 26, 2006 - 9:02 AM)

   I installed Vista Beta2 earlier this week. At first I thought it was going to be ok. Once I got online, it downloaded almost all needed drivers, a great improvement. Even though I can't get the "glass" interface, I liked the way it looked, generally. I had problems finding the right driver for my ATI Mobile 9000 AGP graphics chip, but once I did (had to uncheck box so I could search all available drivers and then found that MS had a driver on disk for the mobile 9000) it worked great. But Vista did not correctly identify the graphics chip on its own and installed a standard VGA driver.
   
   However, the security "features" are so poorly implemented that they will drive everyone crazy, and they are the reason I no longer have Vista on my computer, and probably won't bother until there is no choice! Some kind of a bug prevented almost all my data files from opening at all in any application unless I turned off User Account Control. I had installed Vista to my empty (just formatted) C: drive but left my data on a separate partition where I had it in WinXP. I was running as an administrator, yet kept getting messages that I didn't have permission to open the files (in Word), or the applications just wouldn't open other types of files, such as my pictures, etc. It was a nightmare, with me giving broader and broader permissions to folders and still not being able to do anything. Even with UAC turned off, I couldn't copy many of the files to another partition, couldn't delete the files, couldn't change the file permissions, etc. Also, MS makes it very easy to turn UAC on, but hides where to turn it off many layers deep.
   
   If MS doesn't find a way to correct the problems with the enhanced security, all the big computer makers better be prepared to quadruple their tech support once they start selling Vista computers! I'm a fairly experienced computer user and still found it impossible. Since other users on the MS Beta newsgroup site reported the same problems, I think that there is a pretty serious bug that needs to be solved, in addition to MS making UAC stop asking for permission to do things that are not security risks (like relocating a file, deleting a shortcut, etc.)