Live Mesh Requires UAC?!
 Published by Chris123NT on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 at 12:18 am
 This publication is filed under Windows Live

This is really really beyond stupid.

So apparently someone on the Live team decided that they will use their cute little app and double it as the UAC police.  Live Mesh will NOT install on a Vista machine that has UAC disabled.  I find this completely absurd, If I want to run with UAC off, then let me, don’t start making apps that tell me I have to have it enabled.  I don’t want to be told how to manage my systems or my network.

So with that said it looks like I won’t be using Live Mesh.  Probably not missing much either to be honest as most live products suck :P.

For those of you who will want to use it but enjoy the freedom of a non-UAC baggering Vista, Rafael should be coming to the rescue soon :).

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ac says:

Anything that is not hardware or something like wireshark or nero, I will not install as admin, if I really need an app, I will unpack it and install by hand (Live Messenger, Opera, Safari/iTunes/Quicktime, games(+cdcrack) work without ever having admin access) The only mainstream app I can think of that installs perfectly as non admin is Skype

Posted on April 26th, 2008 at 12:56 AM

Rob Mensching says:

John Macintyre blogged about the UAC requirement here: http://blogs.msdn.com/livemesh/archive/2008/04/28/get-mesh-and-why-we-require-uac.aspx . The problem comes down to an “unfortunate design oversight” in Vista where per-user COM registration is not accessible unless UAC is enabled. The Live Mesh team made the decision to block their *per-user install* (very cool) if UAC was disabled since most of Mesh wouldn’t work without COM. The COM team is supposedly fixing (fixed?) the “design oversight” in Vista SP1. Hopefully, that will enable Live Mesh to remove the UAC requirement and work correctly on Vista SP1 per-user.

Posted on May 10th, 2008 at 12:23 PM

MattS says:

Stop whining about UAC.. Just click the quick button and get over it.. Complaining about one click is stupid.

Posted on June 16th, 2008 at 9:37 PM

Fduch says:

Live Mesh installs fine with or without UAC.

Posted on September 3rd, 2008 at 5:11 PM


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