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  2. List of features removed in Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The RunAs feature in the shell has been replaced with "Run as administrator" of User Account Control. The RunAs feature does not allow a local administrator-equivalent command shell to be started except for the Administrator account. [38] Internet Explorer can no longer be launched from a command prompt started with alternate credentials using ...

  3. User Account Control - Wikipedia

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    When an application requests higher privileges or when a user selects a "Run as administrator" option, UAC will prompt standard users to enter the credentials of an Administrator account and prompt Administrators for confirmation and, if consent is given, continue or start the process using an unrestricted token. [7]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Control Panel (Windows) - Wikipedia

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    Control Panel has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0, [1] with each successive version introducing new applets. Beginning with Windows 95, the Control Panel is implemented as a special folder, i.e. the folder does not physically exist, but only contains shortcuts to various applets such as Add or Remove Programs and Internet Options.

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  7. Features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The Compatibility tab in Windows Explorer includes new options to Disable desktop composition, Disable display scaling on high DPI settings, and Run this program as an administrator. There are new options to run programs in compatibility mode for either Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows Server 2003 (Service Pack 1).

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  9. Talk:User Account Control - Wikipedia

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    One thing was true until Windows 7: the user shouldn't use the Admin account all the time. It needed to have a normal-account for day-to-day use, and an admin account only for making system changes. But with UAC, even and admin need to "authorize" applications to make changes, without this need of logging out and logging in again.