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Because Yes/No isn't good enough

I personally don't believe that Vista/Windows 7's UAC is "enough" for the default setup. You know: the one where there's a single user account on the computer, and maybe the owner bothered to set a password. See, I think UAC is awesome; no software gets free license to do whatever it wants without the user saying OK first. (We only had the "I hate Vista's UAC" stupidity because no software developers bothered to follow Microsoft's guidelines up until that point and took the "everyone's an admin" easy-way-out.) The problem is that most people will still setup their user account as an admin, and the UAC dialog only asks a Yes/No question for administrators. It's the same problem we've had for years. What's the average user going to answer when they're trying to do something (watch a funny video, enter a site a friend told them about, etc.), and something else bugs them with a "You can't continue to do what you