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Originally Posted by lordebon
With updaters for EQ2 it's only an issue because it's a program trying to modify files for another program, which is an action that should normally be prevented and require user authorization.
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Not really, all the updaters only update the files that were downloaded through them in the first place.
Microsoft has been trying to force programmers for a long time to separate static files (i.e. executables) and dynamic files (i.e. settings, caches, etc.) into different locations (Program Files directory vs Documents and Settings/User Files). The problem is that this is not happening (EQ2MAP updater stores cache in its own folder, EQ2 UI must be in EQ2 folder, etc.). UAC would work if Microsoft's programming guidelines were kept by all applications but since are not it is somewhat of a failed concept with people just clicking ok by default or running everything as admin.