after all these years to just have one user, please help! My name has all the admin honors, but is it also possible to combine these user into one? IMHO if you're smart enough to know when a program might possibly infect your computer system then by all means turn off UAC. If you're not smart enough or you share a computer with other users that aren't that smart, then you risk compromising your system. In theory, if a program has been properly written and signed by the vendor, you should never get the prompt (if the local policy is default), so the only programs that would get this are unknown programs. Those are the risky ones. What exactly do you know about them and will they in 6 months run some code they never ran before? That said, there should be a way to turn off UAC on a program by program basis, based on long experience with the program. The only way that I can imagine would be secure is get an individual security certificate from Verisign etc (or a self generated one for the local computer), then sign the programs so that they are trusted by you. As long as the programs aren't changed in any way you might be able to run the same program without a UAC prompt. In theory this is the way to do it, and if I were an originator of a program this is the way you're supposed to do it