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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Corp.’s plans to change a controversial security feature in Windows 7 are only cosmetic, nothing more than “lipstick on UAC,” a developer of enterprise rights management tools said today.

Last week, Microsoft bloggers Long Zheng and Rafael Rivera published simple proof-of-concept code that automatically disables UAC in Windows 7 without any user interaction. On Wednesday, Zheng and ...

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

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 ...

Citing a Microsoft document, he said the company won't fix UAC, which has a flaw that allows a remote user to take over a PC The Microsoft blogger who first called attention to a security ...

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 ...

Microsoft is denying that there is a security hole in the https://www.pcworld.com/video/id,904-page,1-bid,0/video.html?tk=rel_newsof Windows 7 after a blogger ...