I mean, you can say that, but how often will it require it? Besides, regardless of if it does or does not, you do need to give it access to install in the first place. If you don't give it admin rights it will have the same restrictions as the portable copy, so you might as well not install it.

A locked door and antivirous is both good things to have but UAC for me isn't. You're not 100% safe with UAC either even the sound of it UAC, sounds contagious. Doctor doctor help me I got a serious case of UAC. lol

@29 You said it better than I could ever.

I woulnd't got aht far

This is why i think people are stupid when they disable windows defender and don't have any antivirus running.

Well Haily, your example worked because the person trusted your software, not because they had UAC off. You could have achieved the same with UAC on by saying sorry, my game requires administrator rights to download and register a library, I'll fix that soon but you can grant it for now. UAC is so silly that the majority who has it on don't even realize what it does and what does it mean running a program elevated. I'm not talking about the majority of this forum, but computer users.  You can't say they got a virus because UAC was off. No they didn't, they got it because they had no protection on their system. So hopefully that addresses your point better. Again, if you choose to keep it on, nothing wrong, but equal is for those who choose to have it off. It won't cause people to get a virus, nor are they stupid.

nidza07, again you're missing the point. If you hear about a new game that's been released, chances are you'll download and run it without thinking if it's something that appeals to you. Your example of saying the game requires elevation to work would be invalid here because A, no game should ever, ever have to do that, and if it does there's a serious problem, and B, if the game downloaded something and that was what was requesting elevation, specially if it did so when the game in question wasn't running, that could seriously save your ass. If you have UAC disabled you're basically saying okay, anything I can run can now have the power to do anything with my system.

@41, that's not the point 40 is trying to make. I don't really get how this is hard to understand.
If you have UAC off and a game downloads a file that requires elevation and runs it, you'll never even know its running at all. There'll be no warning at all, no way for you to even realize its there with full administrative privileges. If that very same game did tha and you had UAC on, you'd at least be notified that something wants to make changes to your computer. You know what precisely wants to make changes by reading the information UAC prompts you with and using show details if you need that to find out more information. Its not meant to protect you against viruses or malicious programs, per see; its there to tell you "hey, this app wants to run with admin privileges to do something, and you probably should know its happening." UAC also doesn't just prompt you when your installing something either, it prompts you when any application requests elevation for any reason (especially if you've got it at its highest setting).
@33, not really sure where you get this logic. Right now this statement is entirely false. It may be true in a few years but for now its not. Its trivial for me to make a program that downloads a virus and runs it with non-elevated privileges that starts deleting all your documents and other files without you explicitly needing to download the virus. You simply need to download a program that can then download the virus for you. Adn that's only the tip of the icebirg; ther ar many, many ways of contracting computer viruses that we haven't even touched on that don't involve you downloading any kind of downloader.

I'm sorry Haily, but the argument of no game requires elevation and should never do it is false. Here's why. Note, I do realize this example is not a game, but it is something you have to do to play a game. Aprone's games are in VB6. To run them, you have to register the appropriate libraries. Here's the fun part though. most people won't be doing that manually and will run his very useful checkup utility. Guess what though? That requires elevation for obvious reasons. You trust Aprone, and you will say yes by default no matter what your dear UAC tells you. Guess what? That file can download a virus and do whatever once you give it elevation. Where's the security there if you will press yes by default on trusted apps? Doesn't exist. Games on their own do not require elevation indeed, even though some  older games like old BSC software does, but modern apps of course don't  do that.  So yeah, can't see why that's useful. Let's say hypothetically you run a file called BestGameSetup.exe. This file will of course require elevation before it can install  anything into the program files  folder. At that point, you already said yes. It's done, it can install whatever. If you say no, you can't play the game. So it's not like it tells you hey, this file requires elevation to copy X to Y folder and delete Z N and C. It only asks whether you will allow it or not and does not give you the reason of that question. If it did, it could be an actual security tool. Right now I can only view it as a utility to protect your main administrator account from unwanted software installs provided other people use your PC. The fact it tells me that a program Y is requesting elevation is useless. I already know what I ran, rather I'd be curious why it requires that. So that's my view on why I prefer it off, just one annoying notification with no real purpose.

Alright!  So if you want it off, keep it off!  I'm not sure what all the fuss is.  We're saying it does what it's meant to and that it adds an extra layer of security by virtue of what it does, which is to tell you that something is requesting permission to do something you may or may not otherwise be aware of and that the app requesting it probably shouldn't be.  For the average user, this may be a good thing.  While I was running win7  I had UAC off myself.  I left it on on this machine which runs win 10 for two reasons I will outline below:
1.  It's doing me no harm to have it on.
2.  It allows me to only have to manage one account and see what wants to run under administrative rights without me having to assume everything wants to run under administrative rights.  I can go about my day until I see that simple little dialogue and then choose to wonder, or not wonder, why that dialogue popped up, as not everything on an admin account runs with admin rights by default.  Yes, it's up to me to say yes or no.  Yes, it's up to me to exercise common sense, but I was given at least one more chance to do precisely that, where as by keeping it off I disabled that last chance.
But UAC takes it a step further.  Supposing I wanted to run a local account to protect my computer entirely, without ever having to run my admin account.  Why do I say entirely?  Because under a local account, UAC will never allow programs to write to the program files directory or any other directory critical to windows, instead creating a virtual sandbox that fools programs into thinking they are writing to places they wish to write to, even though they in fact aren't.
The fact is that by disabling UAC what you are essentially saying is that coders do not need to rethink their applications because you're just going to allow them to do whatever they want on your system with admin rights.  I'm sorry, but not everything should have to run under elevated privileges, and if it does have to, there should be a very legitimate reason as to why.
Have you ever heard about process elevation strategies?  Did you know that practically every flavor of linux and OSX have them injected.  Why should UAC be any different?  Do you know what sudo is?  did you know that UAC was designed to practically resemble it?  If you can answer all of those questions intelligently I invite you to do so, then tell me why those options are viable on other systems but do not work for you on windows, where the percentage of chances of you getting hacked are much higher by the simple virtue that most everyone and their grandmother's pekingese uses windows.

@47 is right, I just today set my UAC levels to the Max settings so I don't mess up my computer by accedent. I one day would like to switch to Linux full time but, their is a lot of work to be done before that can happen for me.