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Windows® 7 Resource Kit
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Windows® 7 Resource Kit

by Tony Northrup Mitch Tulloch and Jerry Honeycutt
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1760 pages
93h 25m
English
Microsoft Press
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Summary

Windows 7 is designed to be secure by default, but default settings don’t meet everyone’s needs. Additionally, the highly secure default settings can cause compatibility problems with applications not written specifically for Windows 7. For these reasons, it’s important that you understand the client-security technologies built into Windows 7 and how to configure them.

One of the most significant security features is UAC. By default, both users and administrators are limited to standard user privileges, which reduces the damage that malware could do if it were to start a process successfully in the user context. If an application needs elevated privileges, UAC prompts the user to confirm the request or to provide administrator credentials. ...

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