anyone that writes "M$" is biased against them and is not keeping an open mind. M$ is a derogatory label and its use doesn't promote one to have an open mind if their language reflects that their mind is already made up. I hope I am wrong here. Please re-read my original comments as I think you may have taken a defensive stance without needing to. I agree with JD's comment. Many many XP users abuses the admin account and perhaps many many destroyed their computers in the process by modifying or deleting critical files and making XP very much less secured. Administrator was meant to be an emergency account, used for salvaging the computer when all else failed. Far more often, however, it ended up being used as the standard administrative account, thereby violating several principles of security. You know what really interest me especially seeing the older comments is seeing how many of them had malware infection and how many of them were due to disabling the UAC altogether. I don't mind the UAC prompts at all because I got more serious issues to worry about. Ok JD May be i was being a bit rude to and i can undestand your point about bad programing i may not be a programer and know how slopy programing can make a mess of something, but at UAC's current state it is not of much use to me and i think many will agree that it over kills with its