I'd heard that UAC had been improved since Vista was first introduced, so I re-enabled it, knocked my account down to limited user, and created a new Administrator account, all of which are passworded.
Then, my girlfriend was doing some work on my username, and I said I'd save it into her documents folder for her - except UAC wouldn't permit me to do that. I assumed it would bring up a prompt for the administrator password, or her password, but nothing. Just said I wasn't allowed.
So I had a bit of a poke about today, and found that I was able to look at the permissions for her user folder, and give my account full control over the files in it. So I now have full control, and can create/delete files in her user folder as I wish - all of this without ever having to use the admin password.
Surely this isn't how it's meant to work?


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