

You should search for Windows User Account Control or just Windows UAC in Windows Help and online to learn what it does for you before choosing to disable it. UAC's folder redirection seems akin to "magic" and I've always felt it was a real hack job.īut in general UAC does protect people who don't really understand how everything works in Windows from a lot of malware, and - though Microsoft provides the ability to adjust the settings to facilitate greater compatibility with ancient apps - advising people to disable it has to be given with a disclaimer: It also causes your applications to be run without privileges, even though you may have added yourself as an Administrator.

UAC is the Windows feature that asks you, during installs, whether you really want to allow an installer to make changes to the system, and it causes the redirection of some things that used to be at the system level to be stored in other, user-specific places.
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Nowadays, by contrast, applications are supposed to install in certain places, then only make modifications and store data in user-specific places.
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UAC is Windows User Account Control, which is a big reason why older software might end up being incompatible with the latest OS.īasically, in the "bad old" days, every application acted like it owned your entire computer, and modified anything and everything it saw fit.
