"Boop." Windows needs your permission to continue. Is there any feature of Microsoft Windows Vista more universally reviled than the User Account Control, or UAC for short? It's a necessary evil at ...

It's safe to say that there are aspects of Windows Vista that many users find annoying, with problems related to application compatibility, system performance, and Vista's User Account Control (UAC) ...

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 ...

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.

The latest version of a well-reviewed third-party security policy enhancement system for Windows Vista claims to solve what its manufacturer characterizes as "not a secure solution" to a critical ...

A key security feature of Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC), is still nearly unusable, Symantec has said. At a press presentation last week, Symantec Vice President of Engineering Rowan ...

Pop-ups associated with the Vista operating system’s user account control feature are troubling to users, but can be all but eliminated with Privilege Manager software from BeyondTrust. Management ...

Is UAC in Windows 7 broken? That’s what some IT Windows community agitators are saying. They claim that one of the most critical system settings in all of Windows 7 — the on/off switch for UAC (the ...

So, perhaps the hive mind can help me out with this one: Attempting to fix my parents' laptop (again...), running Windows Vista. It's been starting up really slowly: after the boot progress bar ...

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 ...