Vista vs Xp

Most people that I know who has tried windows vista has disabled (UAC) User Account Control, for advanced, or power users this precaution is a big annoyance and keeps you from working efficiently. It is on by default to make sure you dont destroy your system and run a bad program by accident. It also keeps apps from executing other apps as a system process that will effect the system globally. Kaspersky labs just reported this, if you disable UAC and run Kaspersky Internet Security you should be fine security wise

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