Uninstaller likely running with admin privileges or as system. Despite it's huge surface area, explorer is not a super privileged binary on windows and is esse

Uninstaller likely running with admin privileges or as system. Despite it's huge surface area, explorer is not a super privileged binary on windows and is essentially a userspace program that has tons of open ports to plug in for many many apps. Locking it down like this would likely cause a lot of apps to break. I know for a fact microsoft keeps very close eyes on crash reports of their core apps such as explorer, and if your app causes a fault in explorer and you're registered on windows developer portal you'll get notified of this when they roll out beta insider preview releases.