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Windows Vista: User Account Control gone wild?

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Since the prospect of UAC appears to have gotten a lot of otherwise sensible, security-conscious Windows Vista 11.jpgfolks up in arms, I’ve decided to delve deeper into this topic and see what I could find to help put UAC back into a proper perspective.

Don’t disable UAC

As I began my investigation, I discovered that a lot of folks are treating UAC as a pesky annoyance and simply disabling it in Windows Vista Beta 2. However, that really is the wrong approach. UAC isn’t just about a few pop-up dialog boxes; it’s about a huge paradigm shift that is aimed at making the Windows operating system safer and more secure from the ground up. So, don’t disable UAC and forget about it. Instead, you should embrace UAC and learn as much about it as you can. Windows Vista: User Account Control gone wild?

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