"Steve Thackery" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:ug1RHvv2IHA.2152@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> I'm all ears. Tell me how deleting a desktop shortcut, nothing but a
>> empty link pointing to nowhere, a common UAC nag, is in any way ever a
>> security implication.
>
> I've just deleted two of the desktop shortcuts on my machine. No UAC
> prompts.
>
> How on earth have you got your machine set up?
>
>> Seriously, you just proved my point. You just said "once I'd got it
>> configured as I want it"... which implies you needed to do a lot of
>> tweaking before the majority of UAC nag screens went away.
>
> You misunderstand. I wasn't tweaking things to make UAC prompts go away.
> Why would I? TweakUAC will do that. I mean I was installing
> applications, setting up my data storage and backup regime, messing about
> with various other settings, etc. There were some UAC prompts during that
> period, which is exactly what I would expect.
>
> Since then? Hardly any.
>
> As for your external drives, this is obviously a real problem for you. I
> don't have enough expertise to know the best way to handle that, although
> on the odd occasion I've experienced it myself I was able to sort it by
> claiming ownership of all the files. I don't know why you weren't able to
> do that - perhaps one of our resident experts might join in at this
> point.... :-)
>
> SteveT

Albright couln't configure a place setting.
UAC doesn't nag him, dreams of stranded sheep just interfere with his
thought process.