In his blog post "PsExec, User Account Control and Security Boundaries" Mark Russinovich shares some insight on the capabilities of UAC in Vista... ..." It should be clear then, that neither UAC elevations nor Protected Mode IE define new Windows security...

In the LoRIE doc for developers , it is mentioned that you can register your application as a broker with Internet Explorer by adding entries to:     HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy Unfortunately IE doesn't pick...

As stated in the MSDN article that all Keys under HKLM\Software are virtualized, there is still the HKLM\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI key (For creating System DSNs) that will NOT be virtualized. The rationale behind this was that – Creating a System DSN would...