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User Account Control (UAC) is a mandatory access control enforcement feature introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista [1] and Windows Server 2008 operating systems, with a more relaxed [2] version also present in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10, and Windows 11.
User Account Control uses a combination of heuristic scanning and "application manifests" to determine if an application requires administrator privileges. [19] Manifest ( .manifest ) files, first introduced with Windows XP, are XML files with the same name as the application and a suffix of ".manifest", e.g. Notepad.exe.manifest .
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 ...
Finally, the concept of "Run as administrator" isn't and won't only be unique to Vista, while User Account Control most certainly is. Run as administrator ought to be separate so it can cover the same concept as it relates to multiple operating systems. Reswobslc 18:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
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This feature allows an administrator to force a group policy update on all computers with accounts in a particular Organizational Unit. This overrides the default scheduled task on the computer which runs the gpupdate command within 90 minutes, adjusted by a random offset to avoid overloading the domain controller.
A non-administrator user can share only the folders under his user profile. In addition, all users have a Public folder which is shared, though an administrator can override this. Network Projection [71] is used to detect and use network-connected projectors. It can be used to display a presentation, or share a presentation with the machine ...
An administrator may specify a certain level of disk space that a user may use before they receive a warning, and then deny access to the user once they hit their upper limit of space. Disk quotas do not take into account NTFS's transparent file-compression , should this be enabled.