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To: antiRepublicrat
I'm gonna install it on my laptop once I backup the hard drive in it now. That way I can take it to work and show it to people there. I really want to know how well programs like Photoshop and AutoCAD will run on it.

UAC can be disabled in Vista, can it not be disabled in this RC? And how does it disable the UI? And what do you mean by "seeing through the lipstick?" Enquiring minds need to know......

46 posted on 05/09/2009 6:18:41 PM PDT by pctech
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To: pctech
And what do you mean by "seeing through the lipstick?" Enquiring minds need to know......

I believe he's invoking the "You can put lipstick on a pig..." saying. 

47 posted on 05/09/2009 8:23:52 PM PDT by MichiganMan (Oprah: Commercial Beef Agriculture=Bad, Commercial Chicken Agriculture=Good...Wait, WTF???)
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To: pctech
UAC can be disabled in Vista, can it not be disabled in this RC?

It probably can, but that's not the point. Why even include it as a security feature if it sucks so much everybody turns it off?

And how does it disable the UI?

Whole screen dims, waiting for you to click something in the box to get it back.

And what do you mean by "seeing through the lipstick?"

Much of it is the same UI with a different paint job. There are some dialogs I recognize from back in the NT days, just with prettier colors that you could pretty much achieve with XP using a theme utility. This is especially true for many administrative utilities, with the main pleasant exception of the reworked Performance Monitor.

49 posted on 05/09/2009 9:32:49 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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