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February 2007 - Posts

Per-User COM Registrations and Elevated Processes with UAC on Windows Vista
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 Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:32 AM by Chris Jackson | 8 Comments
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Mapped Network Drives with UAC on Windows Vista
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 Read More...
Posted: Monday, February 19, 2007 10:13 AM by Chris Jackson | 25 Comments
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Shimming Legacy Control Panel Applet Run Levels in Windows Vista
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 Read More...
Posted: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:17 AM by Chris Jackson | 2 Comments
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