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Security: Inside Windows Vista User Account Control

Mark Russinovich

At a Glance:

• Running as a standard user
• File and registry virtualization
• Elevating account status

User Account Control (UAC) is an often misunderstood feature in Windows Vista. In my three-part TechNet Magazine series on Windows Vista kernel changes, available online at technetmagazine.com, I didn’t cover UAC because I felt that it merited its own article.

In this article I discuss the problems UAC solves and describe the architecture and implementation of its compon