Does anyone use UAC?

[Se7ven]

User account control?

I always set this to off then windows keeps telling me it should be on, is it actually useful for anything? I have AV and a firewall, but its annoying to have to have UAC on too.. I feel as if I have one too many raincoats on here if you know what i mean

 

[Ev0]

Yup no need to turn it off for me, hardly do anything that prompts me day to day so leave it on. Worth doing imho.

 

[Memphis]

Left it at whatever the Windows 7 default setting is, but it is most definitely on. Doesn't affect my use of the machine or bother me in the slightest.

 

[sturmtruppe]

UAC runs your administrator account as a standard user account, coupled with the registry virtualization - i leave it on.

 

[PhillyDee]

On. Better. I only have one application that triggers it.

 

[TheVoice]

Of course.

 

[DJDaz]

I've got it on but turned down a notch from default. So it still warns me but doesn't dim the screen.

It's only the odd program like ccleaner that triggers it anyway.

 

[tntcoder]

Straight off here im afraid but I only use Windows for specific stuff (where uac gets annoying) in short-life VMs so can get away with it.

 

[lcg]

You should leave it on. It provides extra security and is unintrusive.

 

[vidda]

Keep it on at it's default setting.

 

[Blue160]

I leave it on without the screen dimming. It's a good extra layer of protection.

The only annoying thing is it asking me if MSI Afterburner is ok every time I turn on the machine.

 

[d_brennen]

I thought the newest Afterburner doesn't?

 

[Broken Hope]

I have it enabled at maximum.

 

[orderoftheflame]

Very much on.

 

[Craig321]

Keep it on!

 

[Glaucus]

but its annoying to have to have UAC on too.

How is it annoying, if you have w7 and leave it on default it hardly ever goes off.

 

[reilly]

It was the first thing to be turned off when I installed windows, it is to far annoying for the benefits it produces. I wish permissions where as easy to turn off so you "own" everything in every folder.

 

[Mattus]

Definitely leave it on! It's not very intrusive in Windows 7. There's no problem with having an AV, a firewall and UAC, as they all do different things.

 

[liamcrane]

I leave it on without the screen dimming. It's a good extra layer of protection.

The only annoying thing is it asking me if MSI Afterburner is ok every time I turn on the machine.

Same mate i have tried everything to try and stop UAC asking me about this every startup, tried task schedular to allow it on startup but still everytime it asks me

 

[Broken Hope]

It was the first thing to be turned off when I installed windows, it is to far annoying for the benefits it produces. I wish permissions where as easy to turn off so you "own" everything in every folder.

I'm sure you'll feel the same if you 'owned' everything on your system and with UAC off also removed another level of security so that if you do get a virus it's able to infect your entire system without any resistance.

Permissions are set the way they are for a reason.