February 2007 - Posts
Last time around, we looked at an application compatibility side-effect of User Account Control on Windows Vista: the potential impact on Mapped Network Drives when running elevated. Another side-effect that may affect application compatibility is the
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User Account Control on Windows Vista provides a convenience feature which allows you to elevate a process without leaving the current desktop. (For a discussion of why this is a convenience feature, rather than a security feature, see Mark Russinovich's
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There is a lot of information that we have disseminated regarding UAC applying to applications, but not nearly as much regarding control panel applets. They are, indeed, quite similar. Just like a standard .exe, a .cpl file could have one of many possible
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