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Article: User Account Control.(Brief article)
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- Personal Computer World
- Article date:
- September 6, 2007
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Byline: Alan Stevens
User Account Control
A lot of the networking setup and changes discussed here will be affected by the new User Account Control (UAC) technology built into Windows Vista. This much-debated new feature is a core security component, designed to limit the damage that can be done by viruses, trojans and other malware should they attack a Vista PC. To this end it's enabled by default in Vista and gives standard users extended rights to perform common management tasks which, under previous versions of Windows, would have required them to be system administrators with rights to just about everything.
Some tasks require elevated ...