Turn UAC off?

[Energize]

How do I turn it off? There needs to be a compromise between security and useability but this is just ridiculous, multiple confirmation clicks for a simple file move or installing something while at the same time locking out the entire desktop! Too much security is as bad as too little security, amazing that in years of not having uac I never had any security problems yet microsoft think this is needed, and you don't even get full admin control on an admin account, stuff still requires elevation to do basic tasks.

 

[Energize]

TweakUAC is the compromise.

The big question is, though, what are you doing that constantly requires UAC prompts? I maybe see one a week, and that's because of third party software that insists on having write access to program files (which is just bad design).

You shouldn't be seeing UAC prompts in normal use.

Everytime I move a file, install a program, use a program like diskeeper, use javadoc, run pcsx2, and everything that requires elevation (which is quite a lot of things).

 

[Energize]

Microsoft should prevent people from turning UAC off, or at least try to educate people about it! People don’t know what’s best for them...

And microsoft do? Please hand me some medication before I die of laughter.

UAC was designed in mind of the general public who would open an attachment called virus.exe or download crap from limewire, not someone who runs their browser in a sandbox or with noscript installed, doesn't visit dodgy websites and has managed for 7 years without uac on xp. An admin or pro user doesn't need uac prompts everytime he runs cmd in admin mode to do work like compile java documentation.