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...A lot has been written and discussed (and flamed) about UAC (aka LUA) but i’ll go over the basics one more time. There are a lot of applications that require the user to be an administrator on the machine for no good reason (the same way some online services ask for your home phone number or SSN.. you know they don’t really NEED it.. ). This used to be a pretty common thing a while back (I remember even IM applications that needed administrative privileges ?!) and the end result is that the machine is a lot less secure that it needs to be. So it is in some way related to security, but it’s not a security feature (though why the icon is a shield is beyond me.. MS must have had some leftover shield icons or something). Anyway, in order to ‘fix’ this without breaking backwards compatibility MS needed a couple of things...
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