By treating the prompts as regular windows, malicious software may have an easier time bypassing it. However, if that trade off is worthwhile to you, this setting can make UAC considerably less ...

To configure UAC settings, open the Start menu, type user account control, and click to open User Account Control settings.

Norton UAC promises less duplicate UAC alerts, a simple Don't ask me again option, and more details so you have a better understanding of what's actually causing the UAC prompt. How novel!

Scott Charney, head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) prompts are not intuitive and confuse users.

In the following article, Quantrimang.com will go into the specific details of what UAC is, how UAC works, and the benefits of enabling this feature in any version of Windows.

Unlike many, I'm a big fan of Vista's User Account Control. Truth is, I don't get a lot of prompts asking me to elevate, and those that I do get are legitimate. Sure, the implementation isn't ...

UAC is there to confirm user-initiated changes, setup routines, etc. While UAC cannot stop a user from allowing a malicious application to run, should Microsoft make it impossible to turn UAC off?

Alex Diluzio wants a say in when those annoying User Account Control messages pop up. User Account Control (UAC) is almost certainly Vista’s least popular added feature. Designed more to protect ...

You can modify UAC prompt behavior for the built-in administrator account, as opposed to other non-built-in accounts that you create and make part of the Administrators group.

If you don't like the new User Account Control prompt on Windows 10, here's how you can bring the old style back.

User Account Control (UAC) is one of Microsoft’s new methods for attempting to protect users who are always logged on as an administrator.