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User Access Control in a nutshell

User Account Control (UAC) is one of Microsofts new methods for attempting to protect users who are always logged on as an administrator. Microsoft has been telling administrators and end-users not to be logged on elevated all the time for many years. By default, UAC does not apply to the built-in Administrator (RID 500) Windows creates two log-on sessions: one elevated, one not elevated. UAC (again, in most cases) does not detect whether or not a program needs to be elevated.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2633176/user-access-control-in-a-nutshell.html

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