Q:Vista is driving me batty. I am the only person who uses my computer, but I get repeated screen messages warning that administrator approval is required for the simplest tasks. Is there any way ...

User Account Control (UAC) is a controversial new security feature slated for inclusion in Windows Vista. Reactions to this feature from beta testers have been downright caustic. In this post ...

With Windows Vista and UAC (User Account Control), you will see many similar pop-up alerts. The whole point of UAC is to protect users, and their computer systems, from themselves. The standard user ...

I have found most of the "Get a Mac" ads on television irritating and misleading, but two of the most recent ones were spot on: the one where the PC, played by the author and comedian John Hodgman ...

Windows Vista has a new security feature dubbed "User Account Control" that has been the focus of much criticism since it was first seen in early builds. If you haven't come across it, let me explain.

Another important security feature is User Account Control (UAC), which was introduced with the release of Windows Vista and Server 2008 for Enterprise. It was designed to protect your computer ...

Windows Vista’s User Account Control makes you want to put your computer through a wall because that’s what Microsoft wanted. David Cross, a product manager who designed UAC ...

Now, Symantec is back for more of Vista's blood, this time focusing on User Account Control (UAC), which is a new feature in Vista that restricts users from running under Administrative privileges.

At the time, I bewailed the lack of a Windows Vista equivalent to su or sudo. Randall mentions a solution to this in his antepenultimate paragraph: Michael Murgolo's Script Elevation Topics ...

To change your UAC setting, press the Windows key, type user accounts, and press Enter. Click "Turn User Account Control on or off," and check or uncheck Use User Account Control (UAC) to help ...

Windows Vista only: Free utility Norton User Account Control replaces Vista's default UAC with a more user-friendly and more secure UAC. The administrator password-prompting User Account Control ...

User Account Control is a controversial new feature in Windows Vista. But as many beta testers have discovered, UAC prompts can also show up when you perform seemingly innocent file operations on ...