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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ChrisKten" data-source="post: 1595236" data-attributes="member: 69033">It's actually ironic that UAC was introduced in Vista to address security vulnerability; vulnerability that Windows has been slated for, for years. The irony is that it works (with caveats) and since Vista's release everyone has complained about it.The UAC is very similar to Linux/MAC access control that some of us have been using for years. As you say, you only get a prompt for a password (or a confirmation dialog if you are running as Admin, on the rare occasions that running as Admin is necessary or advisable) if the program you are installing makes system-wide changes, or attempts to write to, for instance, your C: drive/partition. Again, as you said, this installing/uninstalling is only a short lived process when you first setup your computer.</blockquote>