It must be a funny place to work at as everybody there must be a comedian. Take for example UAC (which, coincidentally is the imaginary evil corporation in Doom) in Vista.
When I rebuild a work machine I have to apply a bunch of Vista Studio patches in order. It’s a tediously long process (~1 hour). So I’ve written a batch file to do it for me so I can go away for an hour and do something else.
So I right click on it, pick run as administrator, and it pops up a UAC dialog to run this as admin and then runs my script in the Windows system directory, not the current one!
So I patch my script to take me back to the current directory and re-run it. I get the admin UAC dialog, I click through it, and it proceeds to UAC me for every Visual Studio patch, coming close to eliminating any benefit of the script in the first place!
I sometimes wonder if Vista is really a grand psychology test to model abusive relationships and the Stockholm syndrome.
In the spirit of the Guinness ad campaign: Brilliant!
The next time I do a machine build I’m turning UAC off for the build part.
