Microsoft's User Access Control (UAC) can be a powerful tool to protect systems from malicious software, but many people misunderstand what it can and cannot do. Knowing the power (and limitations ...

“The problem [UAC] is trying to solve is that too many Windows users are logged on with elevated user accounts all the time, when they do not need to be elevated for much of what they were doing ...

Windows displays a User Account Control (UAC) prompt whenever you attempt to install or run an existing application as an administrator. If you want additional control over your account's ...

Is UAC in Windows 7 broken? That’s what some IT Windows community agitators are saying. They claim that one of the most critical system settings in all of Windows 7 — the on/off switch for UAC ...

In Microsoft's view, the User Account Control feature in Vista, which has been widely criticized for the nagging alerts it generates, has been unfairly maligned in IT industry circles.

Windows 7 makes some very nice changes to Vista’s most-reviled feature, User Account Control (UAC). But one security firm’s CEO says that the changes are merely cosmetic — “lipstick on UAC ...