Go for a walk . It ' s just really relaxing and helps me sleep . <| sep |> One of the most selfdefeating part of Windows UAC security is the user ' s experience with it . Users only run into those prompts often enough to be annoyed , not enough to become familiar with it . Furthermore , there ' s a convenient yes or no option to dismiss the message . This may be the best possible recipe for a prompt that users ignore and dismiss without thinking about it . Linux sudo commands get much more attention . Requiring a password alone is a significant change in how serious a prompt is taken . It ' s hard to type in your personal password on behalf of a program without thinking gee , I wonder what this needs my password for ? . UAC prompts get the standard ugh , with this shit again response . In the end , even if UAC can fill in the security gap , it absolutely fails to capture the respect of users and is thus ignored .