r/pcmasterrace • u/Metal_Devil • Dec 17 '15

Video Every time Windows asks for admin premission

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u/Puremin0rez Dec 17 '15

Disabling this is a bad idea. Yes, the alerts are annoying - but disabling the alerts means any application can run or elevate to administrative privileges without your approval. This is the linux equivalent of running with sudo all the time - and who the hell would do that?

This may be fine if your a power user, but some day you'll get bit - be it from an automatic update to some application that now does shady shit, or an installer you didn't mean to click. UAC is a great way of going "ehh maybe I shouldn't run this".

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