The User Account Control (UAC) tool was one of Vista's most vilified features -- popping up and nagging you whenever you wanted to install or update a program -- and many users will be surprised to ...

Microsoft developer Long Zheng, author of the blog istartedsomething, on Friday posted a proof-of-concept for the vulnerability in the Windows 7 beta, and said it stemmed from Microsoft's efforts to ...

Last week, Microsoft bloggers Long Zheng and Rafael Rivera published simple proof-of-concept code that automatically disables UAC in Windows 7 without any user interaction. On Wednesday, Zheng and ...

Windows 7 End of Support will officially end on January 14, 2020, and this very popular operating system will no longer get updates. Microsoft will not roll out any security or feature updates for the ...

I have been away for a few weeks and the system was left shut down. I started it up, and black screen with mouse cursor is all I have. Shut down and logged in as admin - that works fine. Then changed ...

Running a Windows computer as a restricted/limited/standard user is much like exercising and eating green vegetables; it’s the right thing to do, but not enough people do it. In large part, I feel ...