Python 2.6, GUI not working on vista?

[Steve Holden]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message <MPG.2355bd6525d47bdc98976b at news.individual.de>, Thorsten Kampe
> wrote:
> 
>> * Lawrence D'Oliveiro (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:18:10 +1300)
>>
>>> In message <MPG.23530325d1f084f98976a at news.individual.de>, Thorsten Kampe
>>> wrote:
>>>> * Lawrence D'Oliveiro (Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:13:46 +1300)
>>>>
>>>>> In message <48e75d94$0$25303$426a74cc at news.free.fr>, Michel Claveau -
>>>>> NoSpam SVP ; merci wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Another way is to de-activate UAC.
>>>>> Please don't be stupid!
>>>> He's not stupid. Disabling UAC is the recommended way to get rid of
>>>> these problems.
>>> Disabling UAC is NOT recommended.
>> YOU don't recommend it. I don't "recommend" it either - all the people I
>> know (and this includes Microsoft techsupport people) do it anyway
>> without recommendation.
> 
> I find that hard to believe. Any company that would spend so much time and
> effort developing and promoting such a feature on one hand, while quietly
> disabling it on the other hand, would have to be sick.

Well, that's certainly a more realistic assessment of Microsoft. Though
in fact they are just a big company with a huge backward compatibility
anchor. Just in case you jumped in without reading this whole thread, I
repeat:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080411-vistas-uac-security-prompt-was-designed-to-annoy-you.html

regards
 Steve
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