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  2. User Account Control - Wikipedia

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    User Account Control (UAC) is a mandatory access control enforcement feature introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista [1] and Windows Server 2008 operating systems, with a more relaxed [2] version also present in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10, and Windows 11.

  3. Comparison of privilege authorization features - Wikipedia

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    Included with Windows Vista and later Microsoft Windows operating systems, UAC prompts the user for authorization when an application tries to perform an administrator task. [1] Runas: A command-line tool and context-menu verb introduced with Windows 2000 that allows running a program, control panel applet, or a MMC snap-in as a different user. [2]

  4. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    In the RTM release of Windows Vista, files encrypted using the Encrypting File System (EFS) were not archived by the operating system's backup application; [106] this feature was reinstated in Service Pack 1. [107] Windows Vista Backup does not have all the features and command line parameters supported by NTBackup. [108]

  5. Talk:User Account Control - Wikipedia

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    Admin approval mode for the built-in administrator account .... Detect application installations and prompt for elevation ... Switch to the secure desktop when prompting for elevation ... Only execute executables that are signed and validated ... Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode .... --Tom.fransen 17:56, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

  6. Fix problems signing into your AOL account - AOL Help

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    Use the Sign-in Helper to locate your username and regain access to your account by entering your recovery mobile number or alternate email address.; To manage and recover your account if you forget your password or username, make sure you have access to the recovery phone number or alternate email address you've added to your AOL account.

  7. Security and safety features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Applications written with the assumption that the user will be running with administrator privileges experienced problems in earlier versions of Windows when run from limited user accounts, often because they attempted to write to machine-wide or system directories (such as Program Files) or registry keys (notably HKLM) [2] UAC attempts to ...

  8. Wikipedia:User access levels - Wikipedia

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    User groups have one or more rights assigned to them; for example, the IP block-exempt (IP block exemptions) group has the ' ipblock-exempt ' and ' torunblocked ' rights. All members of a particular user group will have access to these rights. The individual rights that are assigned to user groups are listed at Special:ListGroupRights.

  9. Superuser - Wikipedia

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    To avoid this and maintain optimal system security on pre-UAC Windows systems, it is recommended to simply authenticate when necessary from a standard user account, either via a password set to the built-in administrator account, or another administrator account. In Windows Vista/7/8/10/11 administrator accounts, a prompt will appear to ...