Quote: Originally Posted by
dmex 
The UAC Visualization driver is left enabled even if you disable UAC and it 'Waits' for the Integrity-Level (IL) check from the kernel, All programs and services also 'wait" for this IL check and only proceed after timing out, Its the down-side to UAC developed programs and having UAC disabled.
UAC has really good security features not found in previous operating systems, refer to this topic for more information
Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista I don't need a refresher on the advantages, for some anyway, of UAC.
I wanted to understand how disabling UAC would affect performance. I run as an administrator with UAC turned off and I NEVER see any delays. How do these delays manifest themselves? Do they affect "Standard User" and "Administrator" account types or only "Standard User" accounts.
Where can I read about these delays? I have done a cursory search on Google and found nothing.
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Also, based on what I have been to reading everywhere and from what I have experienced, disabling UAC has the same effect as clicking on "Allow" when the UAC box pops up. Based on that, how can there be a performance slow down?
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Maybe I see no delays because I have UAC enabled but set to "Elevate without Prompting".
Regardless, please point me to a technical document that explains these delays...
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