Microsoft plans to improve the much-maligned user account control (UAC) feature in the next version of its Windows client OS, acknowledging that the new security feature it built into Windows Vista ...

A key security feature of Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC), is still nearly unusable, Symantec has said. At a press presentation last week, Symantec Vice President of Engineering Rowan ...

It's safe to say that there are aspects of Windows Vista that many users find annoying, with problems related to application compatibility, system performance, and Vista's User Account Control (UAC) ...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BeyondTrust Corporation, the first provider of Least Privilege Management solutions, today announced BeyondTrust Privilege Manager 3.5, the first product to ...

A small software vendor says it has the solution for IT administrators already beset by complaints from Windows Vista users over one of the new operating system’s key security enhancements. Portsmouth ...

Microsoft bloggers Long Zheng and Rafael Rivera recently unearthed two flaws in UAC, one that disables UAC in Windows 7 without any user interaction, and a second that stems from Windows being set up ...

Is UAC in Windows 7 broken? That’s what some IT Windows community agitators are saying. They claim that one of the most critical system settings in all of Windows 7 — the on/off switch for UAC (the ...

Pop-ups associated with the Vista operating system’s user account control feature are troubling to users, but can be all but eliminated with Privilege Manager software from BeyondTrust. Management ...

The truth is out! Windows Vista’s User Account Control makes you want to put your computer through a wall because that’s what Microsoft wanted. David Cross, a product manager who designed UAC (sadly, ...

Microsoft has vowed to eliminate UAC's unnecessary problems in Windows 7, taking into account user feedback and the effect UAC has already had on third-party software Microsoft plans to improve the ...