Biggest downfall is people giving poor advice, stating information as fact, when there's no evidence to back it up and then insisting that advice is trustworthy because they "work in I.T."
My cleaner "works in I.T.", he also works in "the conference center" and "the front reception". Just because you "work in I.T." neither makes you correct nor negates the sheer lack of information or evidence in your original reply to the OP.
Disable the UAC? Yes if YOU know what you're doing, have adequate AV protection, run regular scans and regularly back up. It should be a last resort though.
OP - I've had a similar problem in the past with motherboard monitor and a few other monitoring apps, turned out that it was the chipset driver I'd installed, no idea why but when removed and the default driver which came with the motherboard CD was installed the UAC behaved normally. If it's really a problem though I'd genuinely recommend restoring windows from backup or reinstalling entirely before you disable UAC.
