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I spent the last two days with switching my OS vom Vista (x86) to Win7 (x64) [For the record: yes, it looks shiny and yes, it is faster & more stable on my system.].
What pissed me off was the same as in Vista, quite a bunch of my proggies always trigger the UAC, blubbering about "this file was downloaded from the internets" (about three years ago and it didn't blow up since then, but its unsigned because the guys who write it can't afford to cough up the 200 bucks a year for having it licensed!) "are you really, really sure you want to start it?" (yes, I do want to play BlockOut again, thank you very much!). During the installation frickery, I stumbled upon a very useful detail:
if a file is triggered by the UAC, it helps to put it into a 7z container (native compression format of 7-zip) and unpack it again, then delete the triggery file and copy the previously packed file into its place. Windoof then considers the file as "nice and safe and totally from your computer!" (*SNORT*) without having to reduce your system's security level, frickle with oldfashioned FAT32 partitions (to get rid of the streams holding the incriminating information by copying to and fro) or additional command line tools. But beware: Windows' inbuilt zip packer does not work.
Frankly, after two main OS installations with multiple service packs, one should assume they'd be able to add an option for a user permanently store a clearance with files and programs without performing a breakdance through burning loops.
What pissed me off was the same as in Vista, quite a bunch of my proggies always trigger the UAC, blubbering about "this file was downloaded from the internets" (about three years ago and it didn't blow up since then, but its unsigned because the guys who write it can't afford to cough up the 200 bucks a year for having it licensed!) "are you really, really sure you want to start it?" (yes, I do want to play BlockOut again, thank you very much!). During the installation frickery, I stumbled upon a very useful detail:
if a file is triggered by the UAC, it helps to put it into a 7z container (native compression format of 7-zip) and unpack it again, then delete the triggery file and copy the previously packed file into its place. Windoof then considers the file as "nice and safe and totally from your computer!" (*SNORT*) without having to reduce your system's security level, frickle with oldfashioned FAT32 partitions (to get rid of the streams holding the incriminating information by copying to and fro) or additional command line tools. But beware: Windows' inbuilt zip packer does not work.
Frankly, after two main OS installations with multiple service packs, one should assume they'd be able to add an option for a user permanently store a clearance with files and programs without performing a breakdance through burning loops.
