Microsoft had a perfectly good model upon which to base UAC, had they been able to get over their "not invented here" mentality--the way that Linux does it. When you install most Linux distros, you have to set up a ROOT password, in addition to the password for each user account. Users don't run as ROOT; they run as USERS. When something needs to be done that requires ROOT access, you get a pop-up that prompts you for the ROOT password. This do
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