I have found most of the "Get a Mac" ads on television irritating and misleading, but two of the most recent ones were spot on: the one where the PC, played by the author and comedian John Hodgman, ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

A key security feature of Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC), is still nearly unusable, Symantec has said. At a press presentation last week, Symantec Vice President of Engineering Rowan ...

Bowing to criticism, Microsoft Corp. plans to modify a key new security feature in its upcoming Windows Vista operating system to make it less cumbersome for users. The current implementation of the ...

Microsoft published a video on Vista's controversial User Account Control (UAC) feature. Warning: Contains acronyms, depictions of violence against desktop icons. Microsoft has countered the rising ...

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 ...

User Account Control, a Windows Vista security feature that has long been considered intrusive, will appear about one-third less often in Windows 7 than it does in Vista. “From our beta and internal ...

What UAC does is allow you to use an account that's a member of Administrators, but without Admin-level privs turned on most of the time. Click to expand... There was an interesting post on one of the ...