Re: UAC disabled same as "Run as administrator"?
- From: barman58 <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:55:45 -0500
hi Misak'
No you, as the only user of the pc, would be logged into your account
which would be an administrator account, But, this account would be
running with the same rights as a standard user.
When you attempt to perform an action that -requires -administrator
rights the system will pop up a box asking you to confirm that you want
to do this.
When you confirm, the rights are raised the action performed, and the
rights lowered again.
What I stated in my earlier post was that if you need to perform a lot
of actions that require Admin rights, in a short time, it is a great
time saver to temporarily disable the UAC, perform the work, then
re-enable UAC, which is a way to duplicate, on Vista, the techniques
used by system Administrators on large multi-user systems
Under the XP system where the sole user of a PC defaulted to running
with full admin rights on a single user machine, any malware on the
machine could gain access to system items and cause serious damage.
The whole reason for the UAC is to prevent malware from gaining access
to an administrator account, and performing untold damage, the prompt
mechanism of the UAC plus other technical locks to the interface, means
that malware can only act as a standard user and thus only do limited
damage.
Hope that explains my reasoning
--
barman58
Regards,
*Nigel*
the beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not
understand.,- frank herbert
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