Microsoft designed UAC to control the elevated administrator privilege that is so dangerous from an IT security perspective. UAC debuted in Windows Vista to help reduce privilege levels of all users, non-IT and IT employees alike, when tasks were being performed that did not require elevation. Despite these good intentions, however, Vistas UAC received a tremendous amount of negative feedback due to the number of pop-up windows that occur during routine use of the desktop. Windows 7 features a new approach to UAC, providing a slider to control how often UAC pop-ups occur and for which actions they are monitoring.
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