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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click Start, type uac, and select Change User Account Control Settings. You’ll get a choice of four UAC levels. The first level, “Always notify,” is basically the same as Vista’s UAC.

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 ...

At this point, Vista’s User Account Control (UAC) will present a prompt. Regular users will have to enter an administrator’s password to perform the task. Administrators, ...

In this screencast, senior editor Robert Strohmeyer walks through the steps you’ll need to take to tame one of Vista’s most annoying features: user account control (UAC).

Microsoft published a video on Vista's controversial User Account Control (UAC) feature. Warning: Contains acronyms, depictions of violence against desktop icons.

Alter Vista's User Account Control setting via the User Accounts Control Panel applet. Microsoft. You get more granular control over UAC's behavior via the Local Security Settings.

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 ...

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 ...