Johan; thinking out loud.

For my upcoming release of logview4net I did the manifest magic to elevate the process to run as administrator. I did this because I kept getting SecurityExceptions when I wanted to monitor the EventLog.

I have however decided to remove the manifest so that a user would have to explicitly run the application as administrator to monitor the EventLog or other locked down resources. The reason being that I thought it was annoying to confirm the elevation when I didn’t need it and I felt like I was cheating. The UAC is there for a reason. If a user has to be explicit about elevating the process he can feel a little bit safer when running logview4net without elevation.

By forcing elevation I also made the application impossible to run for users who are not administrators on their machine and that wasn’t very nice of me.

I don’t know how to grant rights to the EventLog so a normal user can read it, but I will figure that out and blog about it later.

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Yesterday Windows Vista pushed me over the edge, I’m so back to Ubuntu whenever I can.

Something hogged both CPU cores and the disk. Windows was totally unresponsive. After a while it blue screened and when it restarted it had to run chkdisk.

I’ve got an Acer 8204 (Dual Core, 2GB ram) but everyting in the user interface is slow. If I click a ‘folder’ in the start menu it takes a couple of seconds before I see the items in it. So to open Word with the mouse takes almost ten seconds.

Copying files is so slow it’s a joke.

I often have to reboot for it to find my wifi.

I have to run Visual Studio as adminstrator (even after the update) because one of the applications I work on need elevated privileges.

It’s so slow compared to Windows XP that get things done faster when running XP in VmWare inside Ubuntu.

There are more of us that are annoyed:
Does Anything Work in Vista??

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