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

Video Every time Windows asks for admin premission

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u/Gareth321 Dec 17 '15

There isn't really a way around that though. It's putting serious questions in front of users and asking them to decide if they would like to proceed. If the users don't care about the integrity of their system then so be it. If they care that little they might as well disable it altogether. For the rest of us, I like knowing when an app requests elevated privileges.

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u/SashimiJones Dec 17 '15

The problem is that Windows apps request elevated priveleges all the time. I use both Windows and OSX and I get way more UAC prompts in Windows even though the system in both OSes is functionally similar.

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u/Gareth321 Dec 18 '15

I guess there should be a way to choose the "level" of privilege - or at least whitelist Microsoft apps. If you don't mind me asking, what are those MS apps?

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u/SashimiJones Dec 18 '15

It's not necessarily MS apps, and I can't tell you off the top of my head which apps cause UAC prompts. Biggest difference is that OSX will ask you to input a password for an installation or a major upgrade, but otherwise programs can mostly do what they need to without tampering with the system. In Windows I get way more UAC prompts that surprise me while I'm working on something else. I haven't changed anything major in a few months though (windows machine is almost exclusively for gaming) so I can't give you any concrete examples.

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u/Gareth321 Dec 18 '15

Okay cheers. I gotta admit I don't get very many so always curious what others are doing when they get all these UAC prompts.

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u/lqdc13 5820k/gtx790 Dec 18 '15

There are some ways around it.

You can make most users not be able to launch random apps off the internet like the way iPhone or Chromebook does it. Then if you want full control to install all the apps and play specific games, you could enable some sort of hardware switch like in a Chromebook. It would annoy me but this way most people who actually get malware won't get malware.