I cannot say if UAC interferes with installations or not. I turned UAC off they day I bought my new Win7 PC. Installations have not a problem on the new PC.

UAC does not interfere with installations, it merely pauses them. It prompts you when admin permissions are required, and if something is trying to run something that is unauthorized, or you accidentally clicked on something you shouldn't have, you will be thankful for that prompt (one day). Those who turned off UAC will be probably be none the wiser.

Some people think UAC was just invented just to annoy people, no it has a purpose and a good one. No it certainly is NOT just for newbies :). Anybody who understands anything about Linux should  be rolling their eyes at this by now... One day Microsoft will force this setting, and for good reason.

UAC is not primarily designed to protect the system from user ignorance. Every process running in your account has your privileges . So if you are running under an administrator account, or have UAC turned off, malware can pretty much f**k with your system as it pleases--not just without your knowledge, but without your permission. So long as your computer is impervious to malware (no internet connection, never insert a CD or flash drive, not connected to a home or public network etc.) it is probably not helping you. If a virus eats your system because you did not have it turned on--then UAC might well have helped prevent it. Until then it is an annoyance.

Yes.

CakeAlexS


UAC does not interfere with installations, it merely pauses them. It prompts you when admin permissions are required, and if something is trying to run something that is unauthorized, or you accidentally clicked on something you shouldn't have, you will be thankful for that prompt (one day). Those who turned off UAC will be probably be none the wiser.

Some people think UAC was just invented just to annoy people, no it has a purpose and a good one. No it certainly is NOT just for newbies :). Anybody who understands anything about Linux should  be rolling their eyes at this by now... One day Microsoft will force this setting, and for good reason.

thanks Alex... I liked that
 
to the OP.. i *believe* i did the rightclick on sonar and set it to run as admin, though i dont remember why... yes,, helpful, not.

Setting up admin in the shortcuts properties and ticking run as admin is a nice feature. Unfortunately UAC is poorly designed here IMHO. You've already granted "Run as Admin" so why it needs to be prompted everytime is beyond me. Still UAC is a good feature.

Sorry man, like I said, I have never had an issue running without UAC and only headaches with it on. 

I've had a smoke alarm for several years... ;)

lol I understand the attempt for the analogy but they don't quite work out to the same things. A fire could happen at any time but as far as sticking to a particular workflow on a particular machine for a particular task, I don't put that particular machine at any risk. For my machines that are exposed more to outside influence, I use other means to admonish evil influences without the detriment of workflow or introducing annoyances, if you will. It has been many years now; zero issues. In my experience, most machines who end up with issues were at some point doing questionable things or visiting questionable sites. 

I cannot say if not owning a smoke alarm interferes with installations or not.