Originally Posted by
Elysia
Why would I want to? Because I want my applications to work right and stop being pestered by pop-ups all the time.
It asks time and time again for the very same thing and says "App X wants admin rights", not even WHY it wants admin rights.
Half of the apps do not work right. Compression utilities cannot extract to the hard drive where I want to, etc, etc, etc.
It is just an annoyance. And I did not get Vista for the security.
I have managed fine with just a Firewall in XP. So I will in Vista, as well. Although technically I am just running behind a router now.
But I do use software that monitors what is happening in the system and if some application is trying to do something suspicious. And I do not need UAC for that, because it is pretty much worthless and useless for that purpose.