User Account Control (UAC) is a mandatory access control enforcement feature introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating...

superuser is a special user account used for system administration. Depending on the operating system (OS), the actual name of this account might be root, administrator...

introduction of many new security and safety features such as BitLocker and User Account Control. The ambitiousness and scope of these changes, and the abundance...

user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service. A user often has a user account and is identified to the system by a username (or user name)...

applied to users, the terms least user access or least-privileged user account (LUA) are also used, referring to the concept that all user accounts should...

User Account Control, parental controls, Network Access Protection, a built-in anti-malware tool, and new digital content protection mechanisms. User...

operating systems, user profiles serve to categorise files, settings, and documents by individual user environments, known as ‘accounts’, allowing the operating...

applets that include adding or removing hardware and software, controlling user accounts, changing accessibility options, and accessing networking settings...

the integration of new forms of DRM into the operating system, and User Account Control (UAC) security technology. Windows Vista faces backward compatibility...

inconsistencies (such as Vista's aggressive User Account Control). Windows 7 continued improvements on the Windows Aero user interface with the addition of a redesigned...

the introduction of User Account Control. In Windows Vista Business l or higher, you can still create a "power user" via local users and groups, but there...

current user's home directory, so it does not require admin permissions to install or update software. This allows Scoop to avoid User Account Control prompts...

introduced a privilege elevation system called User Account Control. When logging in as a standard user, a logon session is created and a token containing...

Access Protection (NAP), User Account Control (UAC), Windows Error Reporting (WER), and Windows Update. It notifies the user of any problem with the monitored...

viruses and other malicious software by introducing features such as User Account Control. New features include Windows Aero, updated versions of the standard...

will warn the user with a User Account Control popup as a final warning if they opt to "Allow" a program to read Controlled Folders. Windows Defender was...

With user account control (on by default since Windows Vista) Windows will strip the user token of these privileges at login. Thus, if a user logs in...

control (RBAC) or role-based security is an approach to restricting system access to authorized users, and to implementing mandatory access control (MAC)...

"Inside Windows Vista User Account Control". TechNet Magazine. Microsoft. June 2007. "Inside Windows 7 User Account Control". TechNet Magazine. Microsoft...

and later editions include a "low" mode process running, known as "User Account Control" (UAC), which only allows writing in a specific directory and registry...

services and start and stop any service as well as enable/disable the User Account Control (UAC) file and registry virtualization of a process. New "Image Path...

Riley. "Mandatory Integrity Control in Windows Vista". Retrieved 2007-10-08. Mark Russinovich. "PsExec, User Account Control and Security Boundaries". Retrieved...

command line processing. Additionally, because of the way Windows User Account Control handles installers, these vulnerabilities allow for privilege escalation...

controls while operating as a standard user. ActiveX components that have been listed in Group Policy can be installed without a User Account Control...

vulnerability away from taking full control of the device". He stated that most installations of macOS have only one user account that necessarily carries administrative...

subscribed accounts in 2023. 10% of users produce over 80% of tweets. In 2020, it was estimated that approximately 48 million accounts (15% of all accounts) were...

Vista and later use User Account Control (UAC) to enforce security. One of UAC's features denies administrative rights to a user who accesses network...

2006, introduced more changes to visual user interface elements, and to the behavior of User Account Control. A number of new backgrounds were also introduced...

Microsoft has addressed security issues in two distinct ways: User Account Control, which forces a user to confirm any action that could affect the stability...

Developer Story: Windows Vista Application Development Requirements for User Account Control (UAC)". Microsoft. April 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-07. Edgar Barbosa...