Jun 10 2009

Mark Russinovich – Inside Windows 7 UAC

Category: Computer NewsEric (a.k.a. TweakHound) @ 2:33 pm

Mark Russinovich – Inside Windows 7 User Account Control

In this post, I’ll cover the motivations behind UAC’s technologies, revisit the relationship between UAC and security, describe the two new modes, and explain how exactly auto-elevation works. Note that the information in this post reflects the behavior of the Windows 7 release candidate, which is different in several ways from the beta.

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