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I know that Windows Vista is still in Beta — more than half a year till it arrives — but it is worth while mentioning how stupidly hard it is to delete a shortcut icon! No this isn’t an application, DLL or something important, but a bloody shorcut icon that merely points to a file. If you think the dialog box above is the only one, well you’re mistaken. Nicolai had to go through five dialog boxes before she could finally delete the icon from her desktop. You can see the steps she had to take at a Flickr posting.
Though this may only be a ‘bug’, if you could class it as that, Microsoft needs to understand the limits. It is good that Vista is asking us for permission for these sorts of things, but it is here when it goes overboard. They tried to over-do the idea from OS X, where to access a system file, or to delete a system file – not an alias though (like shortcuts), OS X asked you for verification once and after that it left you alone. I’ll say again that I know that Vista is still in Beta, but you can see from Microsoft’s ideas, that they are overstepping the boundaries of security. They tried to fix the flaws in XP by asking you for permission, but soon it will be ‘Are you sure you would like to open Firefox.exe, Firefox.exe is an application that has not been trusted by Microsoft and it may contain malware. OK are you really sure?‘ Listen to the community Microsoft, and get this fixed!

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