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Windows Vista: Inside User Account Control (UAC)
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
A discussion of Windows Vista is almost impossible without some mention of the major changes to 
its user-level security. Microsoft collectively refers to these changes as User Account Control (UAC), and they’ve attracted as much controversy as they have praise. UAC is hardly a magic bullet for security issues in Windows, but Microsoft didn’t design it that way. It’s intended to be one of several layers of protection around a system, working in tandem with other mechanisms, such as the Windows Firewall (or a third-party firewall system), Windows Defender (or another malware detector) and others.
In this article I’ll talk about the basics of UAC — how it works, what the user experience is like and what the common consequences of its existence are. Stop for the prompt. UAC allows a user to perform administrative actions without forcing him to run with administrative privileges all the time.
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