Keeping your Windows system secure is vital for the operating system on your PC, and it takes some time and diligence.

Introduced with Windows Vista, UAC boosts security by reducing application privileges from administrative to standard levels in order to limit the impact of malicious code, but many users ended up ...

Last week, Microsoft bloggers Long Zheng and Rafael Rivera published simple proof-of-concept code that automatically disables UAC in Windows 7 without any user interaction. On Wednesday, Zheng and ...

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 ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue caused by the August 2025 security updates, which triggers unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and app installation problems for non-admin users on all ...