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It’s also a popup that comes up several times every week or even day on windows. Really wish it was easier for apps on windows to run in user mode only and stick to it, but it seems like everything needs UAC on a regular basis for one reason or another.

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That reason is developer incompetence.

MSDN is full of posts and articles how to be a nice guy and run as user, unless of course the application needs to do some low system level calls.

And even then, there are ways to split the architecture between privilege levels.

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