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Every so often I play with the idea of changing my avatar. But I've grown to like this avatar. A lot. It seems futile to change it when I'll just change it back

I also like the juxtaposition it creates with the personality in my writing voice. Hahahaha.

UAC... the thing that (rightfully) asks you to verify admin details whenever you do something that, you know, should rightfully be left to an admin. It stops user level programs delving into your system configuration, so, in a perfect world, you wouldn't have viruses blasting through the system as admin unchecked. Every modern OS implements something like it. Every. Modern. OS.

A lot of people based their opinion off betas, and the driver-snafu when it was first released. BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE CAN'T BE WRONG AMIRITE?

And I doubt Symantec Endpoint has anything even roughly close to UAC. But it's alright, cause while you stay on XP, Symantec will look at all the people who aren't attached like a growth to an aging, technologically-inferior OS and are moving to Vista, and just, you know, stop supporting XP. It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but it will happen. And while you cling blindly to the FUD you've heard about Vista that keeps you on XP, well, the rest of the world will sorta move on.

And lawl at 'too much change', you kind of proved my earlier point something chronic there.

Only if you're a p***y. A seasoned drunk remembers all!

You can change the Vista start menu system. Hell, you can make the whole system, visually and functionally, almost exactly the ******** same as Windows 2000, without sacrificing any of the security functions or in general new s**t. Unless you liked the WindowsForKidz! Lunar theme, in which case, damn.

@Markup: ...wow. I can't think of anything positive to say about that. At all.

Good news! UAC is here to stay! Guess you're stuck with XP forever.

Yes, and when it comes out you'll have been using the same OS for 8 years and we can use you as proof - yes proof - that people in general don't understand or want to accept change..

Yes. I know. But games games, not games games, is what I was talking about. Nintendo and Squenix and Bungie are not using BASIC.

BASIC... is not what people use to make games.

HTML is a markup language, not a programming language.

But umm... yeah. Dude. What? You went from programmer warnings to guns. I umm... yeah. What?

@topic: It should be a happy median. Stuff you'd only expect power users to even find, let alone use? Go nuts kids, we aint stopping you. Stuff the average user could inadvertantly find/do that could be devastating? "Hold up, are you sure you know what you're doing?"