We've all seen that clever Mac commerical that takes a jab at Vista's UAC feature. I admit I laughed a bit, but I have to say, for the most part I like the UAC feature. Why wouldn't you want to know when an application is attempting to execute with elevate privilege?

With that said, I live 8+ hours a day in Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Management Studio. To run correctly I've set both of these apps to run as administrator. I'll be the first to say, that every now and then I get annoyed when I get promptied to allow these application to run as administrator when I've already specified that they should. I was content to accpet this until I read Tim Sneath post on disable UAC in Vista. The nice thing about his solution is that it doesn't really disable UAC, it just allows the applications you've set to "run as administrator" to actually run without the elevation prompt.

Just a handy tip.

ag

Running Vista? OK, that's a no brainer.

Convinced that Visual Studio 2005 and Sql Server 2005 are stable on Vista? Ah, I sense the hesitation in your response.

Don't feel guilty (or paranoid that guys in black suits will come knocking on your door). If you're like me, you have your doubts, and you've been dual-booting you're machine. However, I'm getting sick of dual booting. Today I decided to install the Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate. So far I haven't had any problems with it. I've booted machines created with Virtual PC 2004 without problem, and I've created a virtual hard drive for Vista Business without problem.

For more info on Virtual PC 2007 go here. You can get the release candidate via Microsoft connect here.

Now, I can finally get rid of that XP partition...in a few weeks...probably.

ag