Quote - And disabling UAC is simply a matter of taking that slider to the bottom, right?

Disabling UAC is a bad idea. Thats why it can not be disabled completely from the ui. To completely disable it requires mods to the registry, fat table permission mods, etc, etc... The slider disables part of it, but no where near all of it by any means. UAC is far more than that annoying popup caused by software that is not 100% UAC compliant.

Disabling UAC in Windows is sort of like giving everything in Linux access to an adminstraitor terminal window. Lots of things can be changed then, without your knowledge. With the slider to the right, the os can be modified by a virus or script.

Here is one of the writeups I send people to to read up on UAC compliance.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee732424%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

For those that do not want to read all of that, here is the most important line in the whole thing.

...Windows 64-bit applications are required to be compatible with UAC and to write data to the correct locations.

Which basically means that after the initial install, you need an administraitive token (password) to change any of the install, or write to the directory. (there is far more to it than that thou.)

If you are curious as to what needs to be done to make it 100% UAC compliant you can read this, and there is a lot to read. Tons actually.... There is more than directory permissions involved.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb757005.aspx (This link may take a while to open it gets read a lot)

All of my Poser installs are not on the op system drive, writing a program to require that is counter productive due to the increase in SSD usage now. On some systems there just is not room for much on the op system drive, so making it a requirement is just odd.

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