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User Account Control, or UAC, is a security feature first introduced in Microsoft Windows Vista. It aims to improve security by limiting application software to user level privileges unless the process is authorized to run with elevated privileges.

User Account Control, or UAC, is a security feature first introduced in Microsoft Windows Vista. It aims to improve security by limiting application software to user level privileges unless the process is authorized to run with elevated privileges.

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Microsoft said UAC is not a security barrier. But in what cases?

After Vista came out, security professionals argued that UAC wasn't actually a security barrier, and Microsoft eventually admitted it isn't. But the case they were talking about was a local administrator, who just has to click ALLOW on UAC…
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Is UAC enabled and set to Elevate without prompt actually a security protection?

Does enabling UAC and setting the Admin approval behavior to Elevate without prompting provide any form of extra security to Administrator account. Note that my use case is for a Kiosk application where user interaction in Admin mode is very less.
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Possible ways to bypass UAC if user not in admin group?

i hate my work devices and other network PC's, All they do is setup password and enable UAC on the all computers, i need to install some application that requires UAC and admin rights as well as my user account not in admin group. So if there is any…
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