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What you are saying is make the UAC like Windows Firewall right? I think it is the dumbest thing ever invented. People don't need UAC if the firewall and Windows spyware/malware tool is not good enough then screw it. UAC is total useless. Suppose to stop viruses but it really just pissed off people. Microsoft UAC is just another thing to tick off users like downloading a WGA update every time you need to download software from Mic

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Ummm, no firewall can cause your programs to run with limited privileges... An app that hasn't be elevated can't write to the majority of drive and registry, such as the windows directory. How exactly would a firewall accomplish this?

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safe lists and performing checksums on every executable is not the answer. UAC is not going be an option in the future, this is just stage one. Best that developers and users alike get accustomed to a restricted user account now.

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With all respect, I'd place my security more safely with the system engineers over the graphics guys, any day. I'd advise against stardock playing with UAC, if nothing else, to distance yourself. Think about it. You alter UAC, the machine gets infected, who's fault is it? MS or Stardock?