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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...