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 ...

Reacting to intense criticism of an important security feature in Windows 7, Microsoft Thursday said it will change the behavior of User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7’s release candidate. “We are ...

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 ...

Wow, that was a fast turn around from Microsoft, something we’re definitely not used to. Microsoft quickly changed their position on the UAC notification default setting issue in Windows 7, due to the ...

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.

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

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In recent weeks I’ve had the chance to chat with many Windows admins about the tech media’s unfair treatment of Windows Vista and Windows 7. These are well-known Windows experts such as Jeremy ...

Windows 7 is no Windows Vista. But it remains a Windows operating system. That is, Microsoft's new release http://microsoft.com/windows7, arriving in stores and on ...

Are you frustrated that your fingerprint works to log into Windows 11/10, but gets rejected by the UAC when trying to install an app or make any changes? If so, we understand how bothersome it can be, ...