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by josteink 4619 days ago
> flagging everything as unsafe is a good way of notifying the user that they must be careful

Crying wolf all the time is a 100% guaranteed way of making sure nobody will ever care.
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DZittersteyn 4619 days ago
UAC? is that the window I always have to click 'Yes' on when I run a program? Yeah, could you disable that?
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josteink 4619 days ago
Either you are doing admin-y stuff, or the programs you rely on are broken.

When I write Windows-software, I only signal that the process requires UAC elevation for the things which actually does so. It's possible. In fact it's rather easy.

I almost never encounter software which requires UAC elevation, just like most things in Linux doesn't require me to go full sudo.

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