Vista, Dell computer and User Account Control

[shankle]

The "User Account Control" in Vista is a royal pain.
My new Dell monitor flickers erratically. I think it might be caused
by the UAC stopping activation of a program. I have checked the wires
and tried a different monitor. It still flickers. I know I can turn it off
but I hesitate doing that.

One would think that an up to date Nod32 by Eset  and Spyware Detector
would eliminate the need for UAC.  :(

[zooba]

I can't imagine UAC causing something like that. UAC only cancels a process if you choose to - if you confirm that you want the application to act as an administrator it should get to do it's task fine.

I'd be inclined to get the video card replaced if under warranty. A hardware fault is much more likely to cause a flickering monitor than software authentication. :bg

Cheers,

Zooba :U

_{Edit: Replaced "monitor" with "video card", since it happens on more than one monitor. It may also be the cable if you used the same cable for the two monitors.}

[Ghirai]

Do you have the video drivers properly installed?

[shankle]

Thanks guys for replying.
I fired an email off to Dell and they answered saying that they think it is the driver
and not the Nvidia card. So I downloaded the driver they suggested and installed it, but it is to soon
to tell if it stopped the flickering.

[shankle]

It's been a couple of hours and the monitor hasn't flickered.
So I think the updated driver for the Nvidia card worked.
One would think that Dell would send out a new product with the latest
drivers and not make people go through this guessing routine.