For the most part I'm loving 7 since I upgraded from XP, but the biggest thing that drives me nuts is having to run certain things in admin mode. I don't even get the purpose of it, was some idiot at Microsoft just like, "lolol lets be jackasses and not let them double click some programs for the lulz." Why do I need to run as admin if I'm already logged in as in admin? It's completely redundant.
Anyway, is there anyway to get around have to run half my crap as an admin? Can I change a setting so it just runs everything as an admin by default?
I could understand having it need a password for non admin accounts or something, but it seems totally unnecessary to have to run as admin then click yes.
Yes, Microsoft is run by 4channers so they did it for the lulz......
In all seriousness, the reasoning behind it is actually a good one, and it is security. You see, in the past all admin accounts ran as root in the Windows world, which is very bad for security. That means if I were a malicious jerk off and wanted to send you a self executing application via email or whatever, and you ran it, it ran as root. I could put all sorts of malicious code, key loggers, trojans and so forth and you wouldn't even know. I could do the same thing by hiding these files in torrents of pirated software and get the same results.
Now that MS has added this feature programs do not automatically run as 'root' user and need user interaction to run. It is a security layer, and a good one if you ask me.
Windows is going more and more to a POSIX like structure which is similar to Unix. I would expect to see more and more changes over the next few Windows releases. When computers were first being designed they were designed on the concept that every user would play nice, and respect the rules of common kindness. In the early days there was no security, not authentication and no encryption because the early computer developers thought everyone would be in a perfect utopia of good practices and behavior. That of course was not the case and security became a huge issue down the road, so things like this need to be in place for a very good reason.
I wish Windows would just do straight POSIX authentication, much like how OS X does it. That way you just got to input a user name and password to run things that need access to 'root' level folders/files and be done with it. I think that UAC is super annoying.
