Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I cannot disagree with anyone that is apprehensive in moving from the current Windows desktop operating system that is installed for the majority of your users’ desktops to Windows Vista. We have all seen or heard the horror stories from past operating system upgrades. Applications do not work, drivers are ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Love or hate its nagging prompts, Vista's Account Control feature (UAC) has a security feature that marks it out from any other type of Windows security programme -- it can spot rootkits before they install.
This is one finding buried in a report published in two German computer ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Microsoft have just published an article on the 5 most misunderstood features in Windows Vista from IT Professional's & Developer's point of view, these include:
User Account Control (UAC)
Image Management
Display Driver Model
Windows Search
64-bit version
Head over to the Microsoft Download Center to grab the document.
Source: Nicholas Rayner
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Well, Microsoft has finally come clean about the real motivation behind Vista's User Account Control feature. As Tom Espiner's reports from the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft UAC Program Manager David Cross admits that UAC was designed to annoy users.
Espiner quotes Cross telling the security-conference audience that negative ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
You can disable the—sometimes annoying—User Account Control (UAC) prompts for members of the Administrators group, while leaving them active for limited user accounts. This is great if you don’t want others accessing or changing system settings. Disabling the alerts, however, requires editing the Windows Registry:
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Name: ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0 ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
If you're running Windows Vista, you're familiar with User Access Control (UAC). It's the security subsystem that pops up those irritating dialog boxes asking whether you really want to install software, or modify system files, or write to the Registry.
UAC may be Vista's most-hated feature, but as it turns out, ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware ...
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