The Windows User Account Control has mostly remained the same since Windows 7. This important security feature ensures that certain system changes that may be harmful to your computer require ...

Q. We have three company computers running Windows 7, and we can access them with user accounts. However, no one knows those computers’ administrative passwords, which is preventing us from connecting ...

Q: How do I access the real Administrator account in Windows 7? A: As you know, the User Account Control (UAC) system is the heart and soul of the security system in Microsoft Windows 7. It is ...

I wrote a few weeks ago about changes Microsoft has made to Windows 7’s User Account Control (UAC) that make the component less secure than it was in Vista. Though the company has responded by saying ...

Windows 7 treats accounts with administrative privileges differently from actual admin accounts. Though they can perform most of the actions that admin accounts can, other accounts with administrative ...