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Windows Vista Security: Praxisorientierte Sicherheit für Profis
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Windows Vista Security: Praxisorientierte Sicherheit für Profis

by Marcus Nasarek
January 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
486 pages
36h 31m
German
O'Reilly Verlag
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Chapter 3: Fine-Tuning Windows Vista’s Appearance and Performance
Understanding User Account Control and Its Impact on
Performance
User Account Control (UAC) is a collection of features designed to improve your
computer’s security and better protect it from malicious programs. UAC fundamen-
tally changes the way Windows Vista works.
User Accounts and Permissions
Windows Vista has two general types of user accounts:
Standard user accounts
Administrator user accounts
As we’ll discuss in Chapter 18, standard users can perform any general computing
tasks, such as starting programs, opening documents, and creating folders, as well as
any support tasks ...
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ISBN: 9783897214668