User Account Control (UAC) helps prevent unauthorized changes. We don't recommend switching it off. Using the Control Panel leaves little room for error vs. editing ...

Windows includes several built-in security features designed to protect your data and system. But some of them—like UAC ...

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 ...

The User Account Control (UAC) tool was one of Vista's most vilified features -- popping up and nagging you whenever you wanted to install or update a program -- and many users will be surprised to ...

Introduced with Windows Vista, UAC boosts security by reducing application privileges from administrative to standard levels in order to limit the impact of malicious code, but many users ended up ...

User Account Control or UAC is a security measure in Windows that shows up when an administrator privilege is required for a certain task. When the UAC prompt shows up, there is a Yes and No button, ...

You would encounter this error message when trying to launch some programs. The causes include UAC being temporarily or permanently disabled. Also, pending updates ...

Microsoft developer Long Zheng, author of the blog istartedsomething, on Friday posted a proof-of-concept for the vulnerability in the Windows 7 beta, and said it stemmed from Microsoft's efforts to ...

Reacting to intense criticism of an important security feature in Windows 7, Microsoft Corp. Thursday said it will change the behavior of User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7’s release candidate.