Any Cons of using Win 10 as real administrator?

[ststns]

I’ve been using for more than a decade XP Pro as administrator, now with Win 10 Home I realized that the normal user even with administrator permits is not really god-like, It’s always asking me confirmation to give admin permits for erasing this, I have to run the CMD as administrator to do that, etc.

So I thought enabling the real Administrator account, and use it as my main account. But I feel it’s like a security measure to be disabled by default to don’t let third party software make malicious things or at least ask before.

So I don’t know if it would be much different the experience being the real admin, or if there’s any drawback.

 

[Hlsgsz]

I’ve been using for more than a decade XP Pro as administrator, now with Win 10 Home I realized that the normal user even with administrator permits is not really god-like, It’s always asking me confirmation to give admin permits for erasing this, I have to run the CMD as administrator to do that, etc.

So I thought enabling the real Administrator account, and use it as my main account. But I feel it’s like a security measure to be disabled by default to don’t let third party software make malicious things or at least ask before.

So I don’t know if it would be much different the experience being the real admin, or if there’s any drawback.

Honestly if you disabel UAC, the instances where you have to run stuff as admin or give admin permission are not as many as to merit foregoing the layer of security this provides. I was always used to full admin accounds and i don't mind the way 10 works(well, except a couple of time in over a year of usage that i've had to go to extraordinary measures to delete or access something but that looked more like a glitch that normal behaviour)

 

[InvalidError]

The main drawback to disabling UAC or "running as real admin" is that you won't get any warning whatsoever if something tries to hijack your system in a way that UAC/non-admin could have prevented.

Of course, there is also the good old no safety net against accidentally wiping the OS or other things like that.

 

[Hlsgsz]

The main drawback to disabling UAC or "running as real admin" is that you won't get any warning whatsoever if something tries to hijack your system in a way that UAC/non-admin could have prevented.

Of course, there is also the good old no safety net against accidentally wiping the OS or other things like that.

W10 seems a bit different. Even with UAC fully disable, for access to critical parts of teh system you still get a promt requesting that you provide admin permission, so just disabling UAC does not equate to "running as real admin".

 

[USAFRet]

All of my systems get (at least) 2 users. Standard and Admin.

Daily running (like now) is Standard user.
Admin, for those rare times when it needs it. And still UAC asks for the admin password sometimes.