It's safe to say that there are aspects of Windows Vista that many users find annoying, with problems related to application compatibility, system performance, and Vista's User Account Control (UAC) ...

A key security feature of Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC), is still nearly unusable, Symantec has said. At a press presentation last week, Symantec Vice President of Engineering Rowan ...

A small software vendor says it has the solution for IT administrators already beset by complaints from Windows Vista users over one of the new operating system’s key security enhancements. Portsmouth ...

Microsoft plans to improve the much-maligned user account control (UAC) feature in the next version of its Windows client OS, acknowledging that the new security feature it built into Windows Vista ...

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 (the ...

BeyondTrust tames Vista’s UAC pop-ups, leaves security intact, 08/21/07: Management vendor BeyondTrust Tuesday unveiled software that lets companies nearly eradicate the pop-ups that plague Windows ...

A video is making the rounds showing how Vista SP1 has significantly improved Vista’s immensely annoying User Account Control (UAC). But there appears to be less to the improvement than meets the eye ...

Microsoft bloggers Long Zheng and Rafael Rivera recently unearthed two flaws in UAC, one that disables UAC in Windows 7 without any user interaction, and a second that stems from Windows being set up ...

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Anyone know the difference, or point me to a reference somewhere? I have a program that does <B>not</B> run correctly on Vista with UAC disabled, but <I>does</I> run correctly with UAC functioning but ...

So, perhaps the hive mind can help me out with this one: Attempting to fix my parents' laptop (again...), running Windows Vista. It's been starting up really slowly: after the boot progress bar ...

Microsoft has vowed to eliminate UAC's unnecessary problems in Windows 7, taking into account user feedback and the effect UAC has already had on third-party software Microsoft plans to improve the ...