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UAC -- The implications.(User Account Control)(Brief article)
Byline: Jon thompson
UAC -- The implications
Vista defends against malicious code partly using a mechanism called User Account Control (UAC). This ensures that no accounts have any privileged access, and that administrators must explicitly grant themselves elevated privileges as and when they need to.
Some applications that were previously run by unprivileged users under XP might be considered to perform privileged operations in Vista. Because of this, it's important to assess your business-critical software as part of planning your Vista deployment. The knock-on effect for developers is that they will need to ensure users can complete certain tasks without their software requiring such special access.
Luckily Microsoft has released a toolkit in an attempt to make these assessments less painful. Their Application Verifier is designed to test programs for privileged operations, even if they previously installed and ran under unprivileged accounts on XP.
You can download Application Verifier free ...
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