I'm trying to fix my wife's computer. I need registry access. When I try to launch it, I get the regular UAC prompt. It transitions to the dark background and shows the standard UAC prompt and I click ...

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.

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 ...

Last week a Microsoft exec revealed that Vista’s User Account Control (UAC) scheme was designed from the ground up to keep people safe by constantly annoying them. Microsoft needs to learn that ...

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 has fixed a known issue caused by the August 2025 security updates, which triggers unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and app installation problems for non-admin users on all ...

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 ...

Microsoft's User Access Control (UAC) can be a powerful tool to protect systems from malicious software, but many people misunderstand what it can and cannot do. Knowing the power (and limitations) of ...

Microsoft has vowed to eliminate UAC's unnecessary problems in Windows 7, taking into account user feedback and the effect UAC has already had on third-party software Microsoft plans to improve the ...