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Semaphoryesterday at 6:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

My first thought was "But back then those prompts were constant, making them almost useless", though maybe that did actually help by making software vendors rely less on admin rights?


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klodolphyesterday at 7:46 PM

It was a big mess, because users didn’t expect it, developers wanted users to just have everything run as admin, and the UAC user experience wasn’t polished yet. But that’s what you expect from new security features being introduced.

pjmlpyesterday at 7:27 AM

That was the whole point.