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Originally Posted by cKy
In all fairness to the UAC, I agree certain people should have that turned on. Those people would include children, morons, and people who click "You are the 1,000,000th Visitor, Click Here!!!!" in a seizure inducing popup.
But for people who actually use computers, and know wtf they are doing, it is absolutely the most annoying feature of Vista. I left it on for my parents and their 10 year old kid on his laptop. My gf's and my machine (when i tried Vista) off after the first chance I got.
I think they did a good job of creating a dummy-AOL-like version of Windows to people who arn't technically strong.
MS gets a bad rap for anything they do, good or bad. Kinda like Nickleback.
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Why turn it off?
After you have installed your software and gotten it all set up, you will rarely get a prompt. And when I do, I want to know what the heck is accessing the windows folders/registry, etc. And if it is fine, then it is one click to allow it to continue.
If there is a piece of software that triggers the UAC a lot, it is either old and perhaps should be allowed to run as an administrator (alter the shortcut) or is a POS.
The only time I get the prompt (on a Lenovo T61 Thinkpad) is when I install new software or when the Lenovo updater is triggered.
So I would save maybe one or two clicks a week. Why bother turning off a security feature to save a couple clicks a week?