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Old 10-26-12, 09:07 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Hottentot View Post
Or it expected me to have a brain.
UAC is a major security feature man

The idea is, you should not run your os as an administrator all the time, instead, you should run as a limited user, than escalate to administrator when needed.

This is a common feature in all OSs, and it does do a lot for security
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