Originally Posted by Kalman
There's a lot of things wrong with fiddling with your system settings on a daily basis *for most users*. If you're doing that, then you either know enough to be capable of maintaining a system safely with UAC, or you deserve what you get for screwing around with things you don't understand.
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I still prefer keeping systems like UAC enabled, just so I know when an app wants access to something or other. I'm the kinda guy who kept his hands on a software firewall, even though he was behind a NAT router, so he could catch apps as they requested permission to phone home and/or get access to the internet
just incase something malicious got on his box. The legit apps I typically OKed once and let the firewall remember the setting; the iffy ones I'd manually grant/deny access on every request.
Unfortunately, UAC doesn't sound like it can remember what stuff is 'good' and what stuff is unknown, so that could be annoying when an app needs regular access to protected files/memory :-/.
Oh well, I can put up with Linux's security prompts just fine so I'm sure Vista's won't be all that bad, whenever I start using it.