yeah, the User Account Control. Thats the little demon that lives inside Vista, and pops up asking "are you sure??" when you try to... do almost anything, really. Its intended to stop Mr & Mrs Stupid from running virus programs they've downloaded or deleting their system files. In practice, it pops up constantly... try to move a photoshop file from one hard-drive to another. "Are you sure you want to move that file?". erm.. yeah, I just moved it didn't I?

The UAC is a complete annoyance for 50% of users. I'd leave it on for your ageing grandmother or five-year old child, but for everyone else I say switch it off. (So do half the people at Microsoft too - well, the half that haven't gone back to XP anyhow lol). Point is we didn't have it on W3.1, W95, W98, WME, W2000, WXP - so why do we need it now? Are people getting stupider? Or are Microsoft getting nannier? (Is that even a word?)