I was asked today to look at a Windows 7 PC on a domain. Issue was a corrupt user profile that I was able to pretty easily fix. The user is not a local or domain admin, and UAC is set to its default.

Yes button missing" issue happens when Windows requires administrator approval, but your current account cannot provide ...

Is there anyway to bypass the UAC prompts on a case by case basis? I'm signed in with full admin permissions so I'm never (more like relatively rarely) denied, but there are programs I run and other ...

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 ...

No matter the reason, it is still a nuisance for many. Home users may opt to shut off the feature, but for businesses the hesitancy to leave a desktop in a state where users can perform administrative ...

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.

Windows Vista’s User Account Control (UAC), a system that Microsoft Corp. says makes the new operating system safer from attack, can be spoofed and shouldn’t be completely trusted, a Symantec Corp.

A pair of Windows bloggers posted more proof-of-concept code today that subverts an important security feature of Windows 7, a problem Microsoft knew about as long ago as last October and which one of ...