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I wonder how many running with UAC turned off completely first encountered it in its Vista incarnation. It drove me potty during the Vista beta/RC stage, so I always ran Vista with it turned off completely. It was just too annoying.
Consequently, I ran my original W7 betas with it turned off. Once I moved to the Win 7 RTM, however, I used to run it at the second-lowest setting (and still do). At this level, it warns me if anything else tries to modify anything, but doesn't pop up to annoy me whenever I want to make changes.
This seems to be the 'sweet-spot', so I run my Vista and Win 8 UACs at the same setting.
Wenda.
EDIT: A heads-up... Turning UAC off in Win 8 does not actually turn it off. It only disables the warning messages. A hack s needed to turn it off completely, and then none of the new 'apps' will install or run.