disables UAC . Minor correction . It doesn ' t disable UAC . It only hide the UAC prompt . Before Win 8 , setting UAC to minimum would really disable UAC . Meaning that when you login , explorer . exe would herit your full user security token . So if you were admin , every program you ran would also ran with an admin token . After Win 8 , the minimum UAC setting only hide the prompt . At login , explorer . exe receive a normal user security token , even if you are admin . So every program it start receive a normal token , unless it flags itself as needing admin . You can really disable UAC with a registry change . It will also disable the sandbox mechanism of UWP apps and they will not run . <| sep |> I think you ' re right in that the maze is Arnold ' s creation , and is as has been described the culmination of a host ' s experiences , memories , and emotions as they travel through their lives and wind their way in incalculably intricate paths until they reach the center . I believe at the center , and also at the top of Arnold ' s pyramid , is pain . It seems to be a central theme , with 3 characters now using the same syntax that the pain is all they have left of someone , and we also see Maeve literally fall in the center of the maze in her grief . All 3 of these characters also exhibit some level of consciousness at or around this time . It seems to me that once the hosts reach this center of their metaphysical journey , in which they find themselves caring so deeply for another being the opposite , and also the next step upwards in a social aspect from SelfInterest which is the second level of the pyramid , that it can override their prime directives and they become truly free . I also don ' t believe it ' s a coincidence that Dolores ' name translates to ' pain ' or ' sorrow ', and I think she was actually Arnold ' s prototype for attempting to emotionally harm a host so extremely that they achieve the final level of consciousness . When that experiment ended in Arnold ' s death , Ford may have considered it a failure , wiped Dolores , and filed the whole thing away as Arnold ' s fantasy , until he saw it happen before his very eyes with Maeve a year ago . Ford is now looking for something hidden inside Dolores ' mind , and I think Maeve is what set him on that course .