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Every person I know who uses a Windows computer uses an account with Administrator privileges on their own computer.

[baby_souffle]

I think that's just legacy holdover largely mitigated by some of the user account access control stuff introduced with Vista. Also, administrator isn't the same as root. That would be more like system level access which is not the default level for Windows accounts.

[zorgmonkey]

UAC is not a security boundary, it is instead considered a defense-in-depth feature (aka best effort but bypassable). This is officially documented by Microsoft in multiple places. [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/windows-security-servic... [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...

[fc417fc802]

Administrator on windows has been severely restricted since at least the debut of windows 7 if not earlier.