Windows 10: Microsoft Removes Classic Theme Support in Windows 10 Build 10074

I've only had one or two bad things sneak up on my computer(s) since 1985, but then I use all the safety measures normally available without going overboard about it.

 

How does UAC prevent older applications from gunking windows 7 if you get a UAC prompt and click yes?
How does UAC help older application run correctly?

I already have a program not recommend by most people here that prompts for most registry changes.

 

Agreed.
I don't disable/modify it.

I helped 2 people who had problems with their Vista laptops.
On one laptop, UAC behaved exactly the way the Apple commercial suggested.
On the other, UAC behaved the way it does in every version of Windows since Vista. *Confused

It is certainly no more annoying than having to regularly enter your password in Linux.

 

I am constantly changing the way my Desktop looks. There is no one time setup so I am in and out of PC Settings. Painful.

 

Because that's the way I want to run my Personal Computer. I don't like UAC and think it's a waste of time. I believe most people as a rule simply click Yes or Ok when a UAC are you sure screen pops up so it really does little good except as an annoyance.

This is my personal opinion and this is hw I would like to run my computer. Instead I'm having to adapt to someones else's opinion of how I should run it.

 

I'm on build 10074. I thin you missed my point. I know where PC Settings, now called Settings, is located and how to get to it. My problem is I can't use it unless UAC is enabled.

 

Sorry but that is pure BS. I do know what I'm doing and I do know how to fix most problems I run into and I don't need or want UAC to do so. Please stop taking the Personal out of Personal Computing. You have your likes and dislikes just as I and others do.

 

Have to say that is a good opinion. . .*really

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmm!. . ."touch a nerve. . .*Wink

 

Well than that functionality should be separated. UAC prompts are the most useless annoyance of windows.

You can turn it down with no prompt without turning it off.

 

Mystere has a point.
Prime example: You run a theme patcher and UAC pops up "Are you sure you want to run a program from an Unknown Publisher", (which is probably written improperly), you click yes and everything seems okay til later you find out half your visual dll's have gone AWOL.

 

And how did UAC help in your example? Not at all. You invariably start ignoring the constant UAC prompts and just click yes, so they serve absolutely no purpose.

 

That's my point, they don't necessarily protect you but they warn you.

 

That's probably why I go through Stop and Giveway signs, I invariably start ignoring them, so they serve absolutely serve no purpose.

 

UAC provides folder and registry virtualization, which allows apps that think they can write anywhere they want to function correctly, but instead of actually writing to your Windows or Program FIles directories, it writes to special folder locations in your profile, preventing those apps from otherwise gunking up your system folders.

This has nothing to do with a UAC prompt, in fact, those poorly written apps do NOT prompt for a UAC prompt.

Simply put, if you are running apps that prompt for UAC all the time, then you are running broken apps. Refuse to use them until the author fixes them so they run properly as a standard user.