Yeah, Uncle Microsoft was heavy handed on Vista in that regard. It was like a user was not allowed to enter Windows install directory or other programme folders, because it must have been expected that "dumb" users of course would delete something in there they shouldn't...metamorphosis wrote:Also it's UAC was super-annoying and pointless. By the time of SP2, and with UAC turned off, it got pretty reasonable.
User Account Control (UAC) is a technology and security infrastructure introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems, with a more relaxed version also present in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Windows 10. It aims to improve the security of Microsoft Windows by limiting application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase or elevation