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Article: Vista's User Account Control.(Microsoft Windows Vista)(Column)
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- Personal Computer World
- Article date:
- May 17, 2007
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Byline: Tim Anderson
Vista's User Account Control
A look at the changes programmers need to make for compatibility with Vista's UAC
Vista's User Account Control (UAC) may seem like a strange topic for a programming column, but Microsoft designed this feature with programmers in mind. The idea is to force them to build applications that work properly when users are not running with full administrative rights.
Presuming the strategy works, some future version of Windows will be even more locked-down by default. Windows guru Mark Russinovich, who now works for Microsoft, explained this in detail on his blog (http://tinyurl.com/2oo54d). ...