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Rethinking usefulness of UAC
I've been running Win 7 since RC1 and I've always run with UAC enabled but I've been rethinking that lately.
About a week ago I was trying to run a little utility from the Startup folder but it wouldn't run because of UAC. I set it to "Run As Administrator" but that didn't make any difference. I looked for an option that would let me tell UAC that I want to permanently allow that program to run but couldn't find such an option. (If that option exists, please tell me where it's at.) I ended up disabling UAC to get it to work.
I was concerned about that at first but then I got to thinking and realized that in the almost 2 years I've been running Win 7 on multiple machines, not once have I ever answered "No" when prompted by UAC as to whether to allow some program to do something that it was trying to do. Not once.
Has anyone else ever had UAC catch some errant program from doing something you didn't want it to do? I still haven't totally decided against UAC, the rest of my machines still have it enabled but I'm not concerned about having it disabled on the one machine.